I agree with the preference of Jamey
----- Original Message ----- From: Jamey Maze jmaze@netapp.com Date: Thursday, December 21, 2000 1:00 pm Subject: Re: Toaster newbie questions
Qtrees are the preferred way to organize things for any application where you can't justify a separate volume. With one shelf, I'd recommend you have a single 6-drive volume and one hot spare. You can delete qtrees like any other folder/directory.
At 11:44 AM 12/21/00 -0500, lgkloft@usgs.gov wrote:
I am setting up my first toaster - an F720 with one shelf (seven 36GB drives). I'm seeking some "real-life" experiences and
recommendations based
on what I am trying to do.
I work in a small office with approximately 50 employees and
utilize UNIX
and NT operating systems. I currently have several $HOME,
$PROJECT, and
GIS-related filesystems residing on my UNIX system. I plan to move
these>filesystems to the filer, but will be unable to create a separate volume
for each filesystem. I considered creating two raid-groups, one
for $HOME
and one for $PROJECT, but I think there will be a performance hit
(only 1-2
data disks per volume) and it will cost me two drives for parity,
not to
mention the spare disk drive. I am now looking at employing one large volume (the root volume) and establishing Qtrees to establish and
manage>HOME, PROJECT, and GIS areas within this volume, which would require NFS
and CIFS access. I am also considering the idea of creating an
additional>Qtree to maintain user's roaming profiles for the NT environment - which
would require CIFs access only. I don't like the idea of doing
this all in
one volume (especially /vol/vol0), but it looks as if this is the
route I
will be taking unless someone has a better recommendation.
Finally, how
difficult, or is it even possible, to remove a Qtree? I didn't find anything in the SA Guide to do this.
Thanks, Loren
-- James N. (Jamey) Maze Phone: 615-496-4799 Network Appliance SE www.netapp.com