While setting up my new system, I'm wondering whether I should go with plain directories or use ZFS filesystems for specific stuff. About the cost of ZFS filesystems, I read on some Sun blog in the past about something like 64k kernel memory (or whatever) per active filesystem. What are however the additional costs?
The reason I'm considering multiple filesystems is for instance easy ZFS backups and snapshots, but also tuning the recordsizes. Like storing lots of generic pictures from the web, smaller recordsizes may be appropriate to trim down the waste once the filesize surpasses the record size, aswell as using large recordsizes for video files on a seperate filesystem. Turning on and off compression and access times for performance reasons are another thing. Also, in this same message, I'd like to ask what sensible maximum directory sizes are. As in amount of files. Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
