[aklug] Re: file server best practices

I wouldn't create separate physical partitions - just separate logical ones.

Depending on OS, it's sometimes easier to manage group-wide aggregate
quota, permissions, and backups/restores using logical partitions.

Royce

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod@gmail.com> wrote:

> But what I don't understand is what advantage there is to creating
> seperate partitions for each department.
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> On 04/28/2016 09:59 AM, Mike wrote:
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>> I'm with Josh and Royce.
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>> I also believe XFS and EXT4 can both be extended while the partition is
>> still active and online.
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>> 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.
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>> Quoting Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>:
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>> +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.
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>>> Royce
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>>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Josh <hatlessman@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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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