Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/26/07, Robert Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > Samba does not currently support ZFS ACLs. Yes, but this just means you can't get/set your ACLs from a CIFS client. ACLs will be enforced just fine once set locally on the server; you may also be able to get/set them f

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Thurlow
Eric Enright wrote: Samba does not currently support ZFS ACLs. Yes, but this just means you can't get/set your ACLs from a CIFS client. ACLs will be enforced just fine once set locally on the server; you may also be able to get/set them from an NFS client. You may know this, but I know some a

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/26/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian H. Nelson wrote: > For several reasons we currently need to stay on UFS and can't switch to > ZFS proper. So instead we have opted to do UFS on a zvol using raid-z, Can you state what those reasons are please ? I know that isn't answe

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2007 12:20:17 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *snip* > IMO, the quota-per-file-system approach seems inconvenient when you get > past a handful of file systems. Unless I'm really missing something, it > just seems like a nightmare to have to deal with such a

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Brian H. Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *snip* IMO, the quota-per-file-system approach seems inconvenient when you get past a handful of file systems. Unless I'm really missing something, it just seems like a nightmare to have to deal with such a ridiculous number of file systems. Why? What additiona

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread James F. Hranicky
Brian H. Nelson wrote: > IMO, the quota-per-file-system approach seems inconvenient when you get > past a handful of file systems. Unless I'm really missing something, it > just seems like a nightmare to have to deal with such a ridiculous > number of file systems. Seconded -- is there any chance

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Casper . Dik
>The other reason is that the machine has been around for years, already >using UFS and quotas extensively. Over winter break we had time to >upgrade to Solaris 10 and migrate the volume from svm to zvol, but not >much more.There are a few thousand users on the machine. The thought of >transit

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Brian H. Nelson
Darren J Moffat wrote: Brian H. Nelson wrote: For several reasons we currently need to stay on UFS and can't switch to ZFS proper. So instead we have opted to do UFS on a zvol using raid-z, Can you state what those reasons are please ? I know that isn't answering the question you are asking

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Darren J Moffat
Brian H. Nelson wrote: For several reasons we currently need to stay on UFS and can't switch to ZFS proper. So instead we have opted to do UFS on a zvol using raid-z, Can you state what those reasons are please ? I know that isn't answering the question you are asking but it is worth making

[zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Brian H. Nelson
Hi all! First off, if this has been discussed, please point me in that direction. I have searched high and low and really can't find much info on the subject. We have a large-ish (200gb) UFS file system on a Sun Enterprise 250 that is being shared with samba (lots of files, mostly random IO)