[Gluster-users] ZFS setup question

[Jacob Shucart]

Shain,

If you are planning on taking snapshots of the underlying filesystems then
#2 would be better.  If you are not planning on taking snapshots then #1
and #2 are equal really and so I would say that #1 is fine because there
are less filesystems to manage.  I hope this clarifies things.  Since ZFS
snapshots are done at the filesystem level, if you wanted to take a
snapshot of just music then you could not do that unless music was on its
own ZFS filesystem.

-Jacob

-----Original Message-----
From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
[mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Shain Miley
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:47 PM
To: Gluster General Discussion List
Subject: [Gluster-users] ZFS setup question

Hello,
I am in the process of setting up my Gluster shares and I am looking at 
the following two setup options and I am wondering if anyone can speak 
to the pros/cons of either:

1) Create one large zfs filesystem for gluster.

eg:

zfs create pool1/glusterfs

and then create several folders with 'mkdir' inside '/pool1/glusterfs' 
(music,videos,documents).

2) Create 1 zfs filesystem per share.

eg:

zfs create pool1/glusterfs
zfs create pool1/glusterfs/music
zfs create pool1/glusterfs/videos
zfs create pool1/glusterfs/documents


I would then share /pool1/glusterfs out with gluster (I do not want to 
have to have an overly complicated .vol file with each share having it's 
own gluster volume).


Any thoughts would be great.

Thanks,

Shain



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