On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Jonathan Loran wrote: > My gut tells me that you won't have much trouble mounting 50K file > systems with ZFS. But who knows until you try. My questions for you is > can you lab this out?
Yeah, after this research phase has been completed, we're going to have to go into a prototyping phase. I should be able to get funding for a half dozen or so x4100 systems to play with. We standardized on those systems for our Linux deployment. > test with your name service in the loop. You may need netgroups to > delineate permissions for your shares, and to define your automounter > maps. We're planning to use NFSv4 with Kerberos authentication, so shouldn't need netgroups. Tentatively I think I'd put automounter maps in LDAP, although doing so for both Solaris and Linux at the same time based on a little quick research seems possibly problematic. > Also, as you may know, Linux doesn't play well with hundreds of > concurrent mount operations. If you use Linux NFS clients in your > environment, be sure to lab that out as well. I didn't know that -- we're currently using RHEL 4 and Gentoo distributions for a number of services. I've done some initial testing of NFSv4, but never tried lots of simultaneous mounts... > At any rate, you may indeed be an outlier with so many file systems and > NFS mounts, but I imagine many of us are waiting on the edge of our seats > to see if you can make it all work. Speaking for my self, I would love > to know how ZFS, NFS and LDAP scale up to such a huge system. I don't necessarily mind being a pioneer, but not on this particular project -- it has a rather high visibility and it would not be good for it to blow chunks after deployment when use starts scaling up 8-/. -- 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
