Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with tens of thousands of zfs filesystems

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Schuster
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Phillip Wagstrom -- Area SSE wrote: >> OpenSolaris (as a distribution) is ABSOLUTELY supported by Sun. Take a >> look at the datasheet from opensolaris.com and sun.com > > Does Sun now offer patches for OpenSolaris? since when does "support" equ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with tens of thousands of zfs filesystems

2008-10-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Phillip Wagstrom -- Area SSE wrote: > > OpenSolaris (as a distribution) is ABSOLUTELY supported by Sun. Take a > look at the datasheet from opensolaris.com and sun.com Does Sun now offer patches for OpenSolaris? Note that Sun also "supports" Linux and Windows on their

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with tens of thousands of zfs filesystems

2008-10-30 Thread Phillip Wagstrom -- Area SSE
Morten-Christian Bernson wrote: >> You'll have to solve this issue by using multiple ZFS servers so >> that the number of filesystems per server is a reasonably good fit >> with ZFS' current capabilities. OTOH ZFS is improving in this >> arena over time and, even with multiple servers, ZFS will s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with tens of thousands of zfs filesystems

2008-10-30 Thread Morten-Christian Bernson
> You'll have to solve this issue by using multiple ZFS > servers so that the number of filesystems per server is a reasonably > good fit with ZFS' current capabilities. OTOH ZFS is improving in > this arena over time and, even with multiple servers, ZFS will still > provide a cost effective solu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with tens of thousands of zfs filesystems

2008-10-29 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Morten-Christian Bernson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been reading this forum for a little while, and am interested in more > information about the performance of ZFS when creating large amounts of > filesystems. We are considering using ZFS for the user

[zfs-discuss] Performance with tens of thousands of zfs filesystems

2008-10-28 Thread Morten-Christian Bernson
I have been reading this forum for a little while, and am interested in more information about the performance of ZFS when creating large amounts of filesystems. We are considering using ZFS for the user's home folders, and this could potentially be 30'000 filesystems, and if using snapshots t