On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:02:38PM -0500, Tim wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Gary Mills <[1]mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca> > wrote: > > We run our IMAP spool on ZFS that's derived from LUNs on a Netapp > filer. There's a great deal of churn in e-mail folders, with > messages > appearing and being deleted frequently.
> Should ZFS and the Netapp be using the same blocksize, so that they > cooperate to some extent? > > Just make sure ZFS is using a block size that is a multiple of 4k, > which I believe it does by default. Okay, that's good. > I have to ask though... why not just serve NFS off the filer to the > Solaris box? ZFS on a LUN served off a filer seems to make about as > much sense as sticking a ZFS based lun behind a v-filer (although the > latter might actually might make sense in a world where it were > supported *cough*neverhappen*cough* since you could buy the "cheap" > newegg disk). I prefer NFS too, but the IMAP server requires POSIX semantics. I believe that NFS doesn't support that, at least NFS version 3. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
