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