Right now thousands of file systems and shares using autohome is your best bet. You'll probably want to check what effect that has on boot time (particularly with a lot of snapshots), as I've heard that used to be an issue.
Replication should be pretty easy with recursive send/receive, but I wouldn't think you could do it with DFS. I don't know much about failing over CIFS to another server, but again I don't think it's possible to do via DFS. I do know that it's possible to use Sun Cluster with ZFS and NFS and failover to other servers via ha-storage+, however, I don't know if CIFS has support for that. Sun Cluster is easy enough to use, but making an x4500 into a fault tolerant system isn't likely to be straight forward, you'll probably need a fair bit of extra hardware. I'm pretty sure there's either work ongoing or discussion about everything you're talking about though (DFS server, user quotas, and multiple filesystems per share), although I don't know how far along they are, or even if they're possible. I would probably advise approaching this as a three stage project since there's a lot of development underway at the moment, and snv_106 isn't necessarily a stable platform for a production server. 1. Configure a simple small scale test with some users stored on ZFS, and each user having a separate filesystem. You can use a windows hosted DFS root to direct users to this server, but to the best of my knowledge that's all that can be done at this point in time. For backups/replication, just do a zfs send/receive to another solaris machine. 2. If you're happy with that, if snv_106 proves stable, and you're happy with a non fault tolerant system, you could consider rolling it out to all your users. 3. Later on, look for improved DFS support, keep an eye out for changes to user quotas, and be prepared to migrate to a new configuration. I'd guess this could be 12 months away. Also, if you have the budget, consider utilizing extra hardware and Sun Cluster to create a fault tolerant server. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
