zfs discuss - Aug 2006 - neopath vs automount

Sorry, I''m an email deleter, not a hoarder, so this is a new thread.
Usually I save a thread I''m interested in for awhile before killing it,
but I jumped the gun this time.  Anyway ...

I looked up neopath, cool product!

But ISTM that to use it would give up some zfs features like snapshots.
I would think that for home dirs, you can easily get away with using
the automounter and you wouldn''t give up a lot vs neopath
functionality.

-frank

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:09:59PM -0700, Frank Cusack
wrote:
> Sorry, I''m an email deleter, not a hoarder, so this is a new
thread.
> Usually I save a thread I''m interested in for awhile before
killing it,
> but I jumped the gun this time.  Anyway ...
> 
> I looked up neopath, cool product!
See also pNFS -- parallelized NFS -- an ongoing standards work at the
IETF NFSv4 WG.
> But ISTM that to use it would give up some zfs features like snapshots.
> I would think that for home dirs, you can easily get away with using
> the automounter and you wouldn''t give up a lot vs neopath
functionality.
I think one should want to use filesystem migration for things like home
directories, and pNFS for large bodies of dynamic application data.

Nico
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