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. > > 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.
I can't imagine a web server serving tens of thousands of pages. I think you should put a more scalable architecture in place, if that is your goal. BTW, there are many companies that do this: google, yahoo, etc. In no case do they have a single file system or single server dishing out thousands of sites. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
