Paul B. Henson wrote: > 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.
Hey, I liked it :-> > 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. Well, that's why ZFS wouldn't work for us :-( . > 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. Makes sense -- in that case you would be looking at multiple SMB servers, though. Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
