Jose,
I hope our openstorage experts weigh in on 'is this a good idea', it
sounds scary to me but I'm
overly cautious anyway. I did want to raise the question of other
client expectations for this
opportunity, what are the intended data protection requirements, how will
they backup and recover the files, do they intend to apply replication
in support of disaster
recovery plan and are the intended data protection schemes practical.
The other area that jumps
out at me is concurrent access, in addition to the 'find' by 'many'
clients, does the client have any
performance requirements that must be met to insure the solution is
successful. Does any of the
above have to happen at the same time ?
I'm not in a position to evaluate these considerations for this
opportunity, simply sharing some areas
that, often enough, are over looked as we address the chief complaint.
Regards,
Robert
Jose Martins wrote:
Hello experts,
IHAC that wants to put more than 250 Million files on a single
mountpoint (in a directory tree with no more than 100 files on each
directory).
He wants to share such filesystem by NFS and mount it through
many Linux Debian clients
We are proposing a 7410 Openstore appliance...
He is claiming that certain operations like find, even if taken from
the Linux clients on such NFS mountpoint take significant more
time than if such NFS share was provided by other NAS providers
like NetApp...
Can someone confirm if this is really a problem for ZFS filesystems?...
Is there any way to tune it?...
We thank any input
Best regards
Jose
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