[zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

Darren J Moffat
2010-06-21T13:10:32Z

On 21/06/2010 13:59, James C. McPherson wrote:
> On 21/06/10 10:38 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Politeness, basically. Every user on these machines is expected
> to make and use their own disk-space sandpit - having their own
> dataset makes that work nicely.

Plus it allows delegation of snapshot/clone/send/recv to the users on
certain systems.

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Darren J Moffat