[aklug] Re: file server best practices

But what I don't understand is what advantage there is to creating
seperate partitions for each department.

On 04/28/2016 09:59 AM, Mike wrote:
> I'm with Josh and Royce.
>
> I also believe XFS and EXT4 can both be extended while the partition is
> still active and online.
>
> If there aren't any security considerations between the departments, one
> big partition could work, but it seems, on the face of it, that you
> would want to separate them.
>
> Mike B.
>
> Quoting Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>:
>
>> +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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