+1. Support for dynamic partitioning is essential for this use case. I'm
personally inclined to ZFS on FreeNAS, but don't know anything about how
FreeNAS dovetails with iSCSI.
Royce
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Josh <hatlessman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd build it on an LVM, have a partition for each department, and leave
> some room so you can dynamically allocate space later on.
>
> Btrfs is also something to look at, and is more common in Ubuntu. zfs is
> more prevalent in BSD land.
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Todd
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