On 21/06/10 12:58 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

Will trying such a setup be betting on help from some god, or is it
doable? The box we're planning to use will have 48 gigs of memory and

There's nothing difficult about it.  Go ahead and test.

Personally, I don't see much value in using lots of separate filesystems.
> They're all in the same pool, right?  I use one big filesystem.
There are legitimate specific reasons to use separate filesystems in some
> circumstances.  But if you can't name one reason why it's better ...
> then it's not better for you.

On the build systems that I maintain inside the firewall,
we mandate one filesystem per user, which is a very great
boon for system administration. My management scripts are
considerably faster running when I don't have to traverse
whole directory trees (ala ufs).



James C. McPherson
--
Senior Software Engineer, Solaris
Oracle
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to