On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, James F. Hranicky wrote: > > It just seems rather involved, and relatively inefficient to continuously > > be mounting/unmounting stuff all the time. One of the applications to be > > deployed against the filesystem will be web service, I can't really > > envision a web server with tens of thousands of NFS mounts coming and > > going, seems like a lot of overhead. > > Well, that's why ZFS wouldn't work for us :-( .
Although, I'm just saying that from my gut -- does anyone have any actual experience with automounting thousands of file systems? Does it work? Is it horribly inefficient? Poor performance? Resource intensive? > Makes sense -- in that case you would be looking at multiple SMB servers, > though. Yes, with again the resultant problem of worrying about where a user's files are when they want to access them :(. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss