[zfs-discuss] One dataset per user?

Paul B. Henson
2010-06-22T19:44:06Z

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Arne Jansen wrote:

> In my experience the boot time mainly depends on the number of datasets,
> not the number of snapshots. 200 datasets is fairly easy (we have >7000,
> but did some boot-time tuning).

What kind of boot tuning are you referring to? We''ve got about 8k
filesystems on an x4500, it takes about 2 hours for a full boot cycle which
is kind of annoying. The majority of that time is taken up with NFS
sharing, which currently scales very poorly :(.

Thanks...


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