[aklug] file server best practices

I have to set up a new file server for my department. It's an academic
department and the old file server has seperate partitions for faculty,
grad students, and staff. We just got a new 10T ISCSI array and I am
thinking of formatting it as one gigantic file system. The reason is
that then I don't have to try to guess how much space to allocate for
faculty, how much for grads, and how much for staff. Suppose I give the
faculty 5T, grads 3T, and staff 2T and then the grads fill up their
partition in a year. The old array is 2T for faculty, 2T for grads, and
1T for staff. All 3 partitions are about equally full. I just don't see
any benefit in maintaining different partitions. Well, there is the one
thing that if the grad partition gets messed up, it doesn't effect
faculty or staff. If the faculty partition gets messed up, it doesn't
effect grads or staff. But all that means is that the divisions are kind
of arbitrary.

One last question... Googling shows me that a lot of people are using
zfs for file servers. Any opinions on that? Our new file server will be
running ubuntu server 16.04.

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Todd
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