Hi, So recently, i decided to test out some of the ideas i've been toying with, and decided to create 50 000 and 100 000 filesystems, the test machine was a nice V20Z with dual 1.8 opterons, 4gb ram, connecting a scsi 3310 raid array, via two scsi controllers.
Now creating the mass of filesystems, and the mass of properties i randomly assigned them was pretty easy, and i must say, i LOVE zfs, i really do LOVE zfs ! the script i created, basically created /data/clients/<clientID>, and then randomly set a quota, as well as randomly decided if compression was to be on, basically just to set properties for it, and such. clientID is a numeric value which starts at 000000001 and continues upwards. Now, creating, i was quite surprised to see the ammount of IO generated on the array's managment console, but never the less it created them without a hitch, although it took a little while, in the real world one wouldn't create 100 000 filesystems over night, and even if one did, one could wait an hour, or two... The problem came in when, i had to reboot the machine, and well... yes, a few hours later, it came up :) So this got me thinking, ZFS makes a perfect solution for massive user directory type solutions, and gives you the ability to have quota's and such stored on the filesystem, and then export the root filesystem, alas, some systems have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of users, where that would be an awesome solution, mounting ALL of those filesystems on boot, becomes a pain. So ... how about an automounter? Is this even possible? Does it exist ? Heeeeelllpppp!! Patrick -- Patrick ---------------------------------------- patrick <at> eefy <dot> net _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
