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

2006-07-27 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:12:09AM -0700, Steve Bennett wrote: > > How did you measure it? (I'm not saying it doesn't > > take those 45kB - just I haven't checked it myself > > and I wonder how you checked it). > > ran 'top', looked at 'mem free' > created 1000 filesystems > ran 'top' again. > reb

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 "

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

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Perrin
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 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 t

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

2006-06-27 Thread jason
.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 the advice be for >supporting a largish number of users (10,000

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 bei

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 quo

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

2006-06-27 Thread Steve Bennett
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 quota, and backups are done