Along the same lines, we're working on creating home directories for users here at the corporate office. We're wanting to limit the amount of storage per user, but from what I've read there is a limitation of 254 qtrees per volume. We're running NT, so therefore using CIFS, and using Ontap 5.3.7R2. We are also running NetIQ, but can't install the agent on the filer. We could limit the disks per volume, but smaller volumes waste more disk space. To give you an idea, we're considering limits of either 250 or 500MB per user.
-----Original Message----- From: neil lehrer [mailto:nlehrer@ibb.gov] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:48 To: toasters Subject: 2 q's - quotas and tape drives
hi,
q1. how much of a performance hit does keeping quotas have? i'm thinking of hard quotas for users on their home dir thru home qtree, and, quotas for groups on the shared qtree. any other issues on quotas? our groups and users are kept in NIS.
q2. i am considering using a spectralogic treefrog tape unit for local ndmp backup. 2 ait2 drives, 30 slot library. any comments on the treefrog or spectralogic??