9 Nov
2005
9 Nov
'05
6:48 p.m.
Lori Barfield wrote:
new command set to stay afloat. please correct me if my vague impression about qtrees is ignorant, but don't they make it that much more difficult to do the day-to-day work of maintaining filers?
On the contrary, they open a lot of possibilities for administrator to manage backups, quotas and sharing, for example. We have a policy to create only qtrees on volume roots instead of regular directories. And now flexvols give us tools to have different snapshot policies without wasting disk space etc. I personally like to separate different sharing profiles on different volumes. /vol/iscsi for iscsi luns (and a qtree for every igroup), /vol/home for home directories, /vol/projects for projects' shared data etc.
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Eino Tuominen