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 but it is
worth making sure you have the correct info.
I'd also like to understand why UFS works for you but ZFS as a
filesystem does not.
I knew someone would ask that :)
The primary reason is that our backup software (EMC/Legato Networker
7.2) does not appear to support zfs. We don't have the funds currently
to upgrade to the new version that does.
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
transitioning to that many zfs 'partitions' in order to have per-user
quotas seemed daunting, not to mention the administrative re-training
needed (edquota doesn't work. du is reporting 3000 filesystems?! etc).
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.
-Brian
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Brian H. Nelson Youngstown State University
System Administrator Media and Academic Computing
bnelson[at]cis.ysu.edu
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