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 systems, but it seemed that a fix had been released with Solaris 10 U3.
I just recently setup OpenSolaris b66 on a T2000 Logical Domain (4 VCPU, 4GB RAM, SAS-backed virtual storage) and created 50K file systems as a test, but I've found boot times to be very slow (> 5 hours) and operations on ZFS (ex., zfs set) to also be pretty slow. Has there been a regression, or do I need to set tuning factors (ex., in /etc/system)? We're currently have ZFS deployed for a near-line backup system with tens of millions of files, and it's working great, so we'd also like to move some of our other datasets to it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss