On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, James F. Hranicky wrote: > This can be solved using an automounter as well.
Well, I'd say more "kludged around" than "solved" ;), but again unless you've used DFS it might not seem that way. It just seems rather involved, and relatively inefficient to continuously be mounting/unmounting stuff all the time. One of the applications to be deployed against the filesystem will be web service, I can't really envision a web server with tens of thousands of NFS mounts coming and going, seems like a lot of overhead. I might need to pursue a similar route though if I can't get one large system to house everything in one place. > Samba can be configured to map homes drives to /nfs/home/%u . Let samba use > the automounter setup and it's just as transparent on the CIFS side. I'm planning to use NFSv4 with strong authentication and authorization through, and intended to run Samba directly on the file server itself accessing storage locally. I'm not sure that Samba would be able to acquire local Kerberos credentials and switch between them for the users, without that access via NFSv4 isn't very doable. > and due to the fact that snapshots counted toward ZFS quota, I decided Yes, that does seem to remove a bit of their value for backup purposes. I think they're planning to rectify that at some point in the future. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
