Hello All,
What a great list - I found the archives very helpful!
I am setting up a Filer, an F760 with ONTAP 6.3 and both NFS and CIFS licences. Based on what I have read I have configured our only shelf as a single large volume (with one disk left unused or spare). I then plan to use qtrees to implement the directory hierarchy seen by users.
What I would like to present to users is something like this:
filer: /home/ srb/ bwk/ ...
/ics/ sales/ products/ support/ ...
Where "ics" is our company name. I'm sure you see what I mean. So, for example, NFS users could mount either or both of "filer1:/home" and "filer1:/ics". Windows users would probably setup network connections to both "home" and "ics".
I have created a qtree "/vol/vol0/home" and copied some users home directories into it, this seems to work well. But I am a bit puzzled how to implement the company hierarchy. I think that ideally "sales", "support", etc. would be separate qtrees - but it seems that qtrees can only exist at the top level, so this is not possible?
Or, I could create "sales", "support", etc. as qtees directly at the top level but then users would have to mount each tree individually?
Or, I could create a single "company" qtree with the various functional directories under it... but then I would not be able to take advantage of qtree features such as having separate quotas and dumps for these different "functions".
Maybe I'm missing some key point here. Comments?