> (I don't suppose there is some hack to let me cross file-systems?) I believe that if you lofs mount the filesystems under, say, /export you can share that directory and have all the subdirectories appear.
We certainly do that for a single directory at a time. > On the NFS client side, this would mean I would have to do 194172 NFS > mounts to see my file-system. Can normal Unix servers even do this? That > just is not very realistic. This would cut out many old systems, and > probably some Unix flavours. I know that as of a couple of years ago Linux wouldn't have coped with that at all. It would use "devices" for each mount. You could increase the number of devices available. Our partial solution was to decrease the number of possible mounts and use an automounter. If a client became busy then it could still fail, but it has proved manageable for us. > From Googling, it seems suggested that I use automount, which would cut > out any version of Unix without automount, either from the age of the OS > (early Sun might be ok still?) and Unix flavours without automount. I'm not aware of a Unix for which you can't get an automount. > *** software quotas? > > Probably the only realistic option for zfs/x4500 at this time. It is > "most likely" that we can do software quota with the specific software > we are wanting to use, but we would always have to look out for smart > people getting around it, software bugs etc. Or you could group sets of people together so that they are quotad, but that a single person couldn't fill the entire system. > Please tell me I am wrong. I really wanted this to work, as the price > per GB is quite attractive. Also, zfs is very neat. I think you are wrong. I haven't, however, solved all your problems in the same single system. > Jorgen Lundman | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julian -- Julian King Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
