[zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

David Magda
2010-06-21T11:33:14Z

On Jun 21, 2010, at 05:00, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> So far the plan is to keep it in one pool for design and
> administration simplicity. Why would you want to split up (net) 40TB
> into more pools? Seems to me that''ll mess up things a bit, having
to
> split up SSDs for use on different pools, loosing the flexibility of
> a common pool etc. Why?

If different groups or areas have different I/O characteristics for
one. If in one case (users) you want responsiveness, you could go with
striped-mirrors. However, if departments have lots of data, it may be
worthwhile to put it on a RAID-Z pool for better storage efficiency.

Just a thought.