Hi Tom, My input: Create one file system per type of data to: 1. help organise your data logically 2. increase file system granularity which allows different file system properties to be set per filesystem: such as copies, compression etc 3. allow separate shares to be easily setup: via CIFS (SMB/Samba-like) or NFS 4. allow finer control over user access depending on data type
For example I split my file systems into logical types like: 1. user home directory file systems 2. media (music, photo, video etc) 3. software archive 4. backups 5. test area Also, within each of these file systems, ZFS allows file system nesting, to allow better grouping. If we assume the name 'tank' for the pool name then the default file system created when the pool is created is called 'tank'. So for media file systems, I might create 'tank/media' as the base file system. Within 'tank/media' I can create 'tank/media/music', 'tank/media/photo', 'tank/media/video' etc. For the home file systems, I might create 'tank/home' and then nest 'tank/home/fred', 'tank/home/wilma' etc. For easy, regular snapshotting of all the file systems, you can issue: # zfs snapshot -r t...@20100303 This will give snapshot names for each nested file system under the root 'tank' file system like 'tank/h...@20100303', 'tank/home/f...@20100303', 'tank/home/wi...@20100303', 'tank/me...@20100303', 'tank/media/mu...@20100303', 'tank/media/ph...@20100303', 'tank/media/vi...@20100303' etc. If you want some more stuff to read then try these: http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/08/home-fileserver-zfs-setup/ http://breden.org.uk/2009/05/10/home-fileserver-zfs-file-systems/ http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ You'll also find stuff on snapshots, backups there too. Hope this helps :) Cheers, Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
