[aklug] Re: file server best practices

Sorry, this has to go to everyone.  I looked at the site for AK Linux User Group.  I did not see a way to contact anyone except to sign up for this newsletter.  I went to the last LUG last Friday at Northern Lights and Boniface.  I did not see any cars in the parking lot.  I drove around the whole building and saw one car in the lot and luckily saw the owner of the car.  She was taking out the trash and cleaning the school.  Was the meeting canceled?  I also went two weeks before that on Friday, April 8.  I was late and saw a lot of kids exiting the school at the east end of the building.  Am I missing something?  Are you still having sessions as the website indicates every Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 PM?  I used to come fairly frequently a few years ago so maybe something changed but the website indicates things are still happening.  Please let me know.  
Thank you, Gurubandhu Khalsa

    On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:12 PM, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com> wrote:
 

 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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