Jocab,
Thanks for the input. I did consider that along with having the ability
to set different properties on each (compression, dedup, etc) none of
which I plan on using right now...however I would at least have the
option in the future.
The only other thing I was able to come up with was this:
If one of the shares did get out of sync for example (or if you simply
wanted to know the size the shares for that matter)...it might be easier
to tell which one using 'zfs list' or something like that...rather then
having to do a 'du' on a several TB folder.
Shain
On 01/06/2011 04:58 PM, Jacob Shucart wrote:
Shain,
If you are planning on taking snapshots of the underlying filesystems then
#2 would be better. If you are not planning on taking snapshots then #1
and #2 are equal really and so I would say that #1 is fine because there
are less filesystems to manage. I hope this clarifies things. Since ZFS
snapshots are done at the filesystem level, if you wanted to take a
snapshot of just music then you could not do that unless music was on its
own ZFS filesystem.
-Jacob
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Subject: [Gluster-users] ZFS setup question
Hello,
I am in the process of setting up my Gluster shares and I am looking at
the following two setup options and I am wondering if anyone can speak
to the pros/cons of either:
1) Create one large zfs filesystem for gluster.
eg:
zfs create pool1/glusterfs
and then create several folders with 'mkdir' inside '/pool1/glusterfs'
(music,videos,documents).
2) Create 1 zfs filesystem per share.
eg:
zfs create pool1/glusterfs
zfs create pool1/glusterfs/music
zfs create pool1/glusterfs/videos
zfs create pool1/glusterfs/documents
I would then share /pool1/glusterfs out with gluster (I do not want to
have to have an overly complicated .vol file with each share having it's
own gluster volume).
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks,
Shain
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