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cifs - filesystem layout, best practices question
This is our first SAN so I appologize if this question is dumb, but I'm trying to figure out what the best way is to approach the initial setup of our CIFS server and if the setup correlates to the windows world at all.
Currently I have the following configured:
- CIFS server data01
- filesystem data
Conventional 'windows' shares are all under the root of a filesystem, ie: you have D:\ as your filesystem, and shares go d:\users = user share, d:\data = data share, etc. Create a folder, create a share.
With the Celerra is that correct as well? ie: do all my shares existing on a single filesystem or do I need to create a filesystem for every share? The defalt CIFS share setup seems to lean towards this (since the default path is the filesystem root). Right now my filesystem shows up as c:\data on 'data01'. My initial thought is that my shares should be c:\data\users = users share, c:\data\data = data share, however I'm a bit unsure how I setup the path to create the shares that point to c:\data\x. Do I have to share out c:\data, create the paths then setup the rest of my shares?
I hope the question makes sense, and I appreciate any feedback
Thanks!
-dan
Currently I have the following configured:
- CIFS server data01
- filesystem data
Conventional 'windows' shares are all under the root of a filesystem, ie: you have D:\ as your filesystem, and shares go d:\users = user share, d:\data = data share, etc. Create a folder, create a share.
With the Celerra is that correct as well? ie: do all my shares existing on a single filesystem or do I need to create a filesystem for every share? The defalt CIFS share setup seems to lean towards this (since the default path is the filesystem root). Right now my filesystem shows up as c:\data on 'data01'. My initial thought is that my shares should be c:\data\users = users share, c:\data\data = data share, however I'm a bit unsure how I setup the path to create the shares that point to c:\data\x. Do I have to share out c:\data, create the paths then setup the rest of my shares?
I hope the question makes sense, and I appreciate any feedback
Thanks!
-dan
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Rainer_EMC
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April 11th, 2008 11:00
it depends on a number of factors, like
how much data ?
do you want/need multiple CIFS servers ?
how many shares ?
do you need different checkpoint (snapshot) schedules for different pieces of the data ?
Do you want to replicate or add replication later on ?
whats your backup strategy and how large are your tapes ?
For a small system there is no problem putting all the shares in one file system - unless you need different settings like access-policy (multi-protocol) or checkpoint/replication or others that are defined on a per file system basis.
I.e. look at all the options for server_mount and ask yourself if there is anything there you want to turn on/off for only part of your data.
You might want to look at treequotas - i.e. make users and data a treequota so that can specify a max size
And also if you can benefit from our home directory functionality
Rainer
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April 11th, 2008 12:00