Hello Jim, Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 3:28:53 PM, you wrote:
JD> We have two aging Netapp filers and can't afford to buy new Netapp gear, JD> so we've been looking with a lot of interest at building NFS fileservers JD> running ZFS as a possible future approach. Two issues have come up in the JD> discussion JD> - Adding new disks to a RAID-Z pool (Netapps handle adding new disks very JD> nicely). Mirroring is an alternative, but when you're on a tight budget JD> losing N/2 disk capacity is painful. Actually you can add another raid-z group to the pool. I belive it's the same what NetApp is doing (instead of actually growing raid group). JD> - The default scheme of one filesystem per user runs into problems with JD> linux NFS clients; on one linux system, with 1300 logins, we already have JD> to do symlinks with amd because linux systems can't mount more than about JD> 255 filesystems at once. We can of course just have one filesystem JD> exported, and make /home/student a subdirectory of that, but then we run JD> into problems with quotas -- and on an undergraduate fileserver, quotas JD> aren't optional! It can with 2.6 kernels. However there're other problems we we ended-up with limit at around 700. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
