> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Arne Jansen > > Don't host 50k filesystems on a single pool. It's more pain than it's > worth.
I assume Michael has reached this conclusion due to factors which are not necessary to discuss here. He has a problem, asked for help. The above is not helpful. Michael, I assume you reached this conclusion (must host 50k users on a single system) due to some logical process and/or resource constraint, right? Did you consider the possibility of something like DFS, and/or shadow copies, which are included in Windows Server, and allow for "snapshots" and load distribution across multiple servers, using the same UNC space? \\domainname\users\eharvey could be hosted by any number of servers, and I as a user, would have no idea and no care which one(s) were serving the requests. The problem with "previous versions" is that it's only available to windows clients. If you happen to be using OSX or Ubuntu or whatever, as your cifs client, you won't have access to previous versions (AFAIK). So solaris & zfs certainly have a place here. In some environments, windows might be the better server solution. In some environments, osol might be better. And by logical process, you might be stuck putting it all on a single server. Or the average workload might be small enough that a single server is perfectly adequate. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
