[aklug] Re: file server best practices

Don't forget quotas, if you wish to provide 'soft' limits but use the same
backing store.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:

> +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.
>>>
>>>
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