Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-30 Thread David Magda
On Jun 30, 2007, at 17:08, Richard Elling wrote: Excellent question. The problem with using file system quotas for a service such as mail store is that you have very little control over implementation of policies. The only thing the mail service knows is that a write a mailbox fails. FWIW I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-30 Thread Richard Elling
David Magda wrote: On Jun 29, 2007, at 20:51, Stephen Le wrote: I'm investigating the feasibility of migrating from UFS to ZFS for a mail-store supporting 20K users. I need separate quotas for all of my users, which forces me to create separate ZFS file systems for each user. Does each and e

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-30 Thread David Magda
On Jun 29, 2007, at 20:51, Stephen Le wrote: I'm investigating the feasibility of migrating from UFS to ZFS for a mail-store supporting 20K users. I need separate quotas for all of my users, which forces me to create separate ZFS file systems for each user. Does each and every user have a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Le
I'm investigating the feasibility of migrating from UFS to ZFS for a mail-store supporting 20K users. I need separate quotas for all of my users, which forces me to create separate ZFS file systems for each user. I had read that there were issues with slow boot times with thousands of ZFS file s