Re: [zfs-discuss] Supporting ~10K users on ZFS

2006-07-27 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:20:56PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: btw: I belive it was discussed here before - it would be great if one would automatically convert given directory on zfs filesystem into zfs filesystem (without actually copying all data) Yep, and an RFE filed: 6400399 want zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supporting ~10K users on ZFS

2006-06-27 Thread eric kustarz
Steve Bennett wrote: OK, I know that there's been some discussion on this before, but I'm not sure that any specific advice came out of it. What would the advice be for supporting a largish number of users (10,000 say) on a system that supports ZFS? We currently use vxfs and assign a user

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supporting ~10K users on ZFS

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 23:07, Steve Bennett wrote: From what little I currently understand, the general advice would seem to be to assign a filesystem to each user, and to set a quota on that. I can see this being OK for small numbers of users (up to 1000 maybe), but I can also see it being a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supporting ~10K users on ZFS

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Perrin
Jun 2006 15:55:45 To:Steve Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Supporting ~10K users on ZFS Steve Bennett wrote: OK, I know that there's been some discussion on this before, but I'm not sure that any specific advice came out of it. What would