[zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

Edward Ned Harvey
2010-06-21T12:38:29Z

> From: James C. McPherson [mailto:jmcp at opensolaris.org]
>
> 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.

What''s the reasoning behind it?


> My management scripts are
> considerably faster running when I don''t have to traverse
> whole directory trees (ala ufs).

That''s a good reason.  Why would you have to traverse whole directory
structures if you had a single zfs filesystem in a single zpool, instead of many
zfs filesystems in a single zpool?