[zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

James C. McPherson
2010-06-21T03:08:18Z

On 21/06/10 12:58 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
>> bounces at 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
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Senior Software Engineer, Solaris
Oracle