From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C6E13824C for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34A3221C006; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF1AE04D2 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 63D7480B07 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:04:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:04:50 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library? Message-ID: <20130102130450.6bf088ed@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121227021800.49b1cbad@khamul.example.com> References: <20121227021800.49b1cbad@khamul.example.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0cvs51 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/_+hLB_XBD0qD06_zuygTNCw"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9b0554f9-d93e-4d7a-9f38-796fd41988d2 X-Archives-Hash: ae5645803c3f1a7b9c585aa125b58941 --Sig_/_+hLB_XBD0qD06_zuygTNCw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to > remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I > want to happen with each "chunk" of it. A "chunk" (my term) in this > context is a directory and everything below it. >=20 > ZFS doesn't have partitions and filesystems. It has volumes. A volume > is sort of a cross between a filesystem (you mount it and can assign > quotas to it) and a directory (you assign permissions and ownerships to > it). You can overcommit storage space and quotas - you do not get "disk > full" errors and three days of nightmares while you figure out how to > deal with this. the FS just tells you it used more than the allocated > space and keeps telling you till you get it under the limit. I've been looking at zfsonlinux and it looks a lot simpler than the layers of RAID and LVM, but what about encryption. Can I encrypt directories within ZFS or do I have to use something like ecryptfs on top of it? --=20 Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. --Sig_/_+hLB_XBD0qD06_zuygTNCw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlDkMHIACgkQum4al0N1GQNh/ACdFckNsn+fjfwdNkNMr9YlGWUD gK0An0NLz9WvTGfBKLgDns5QNLtZGDCw =ekyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_+hLB_XBD0qD06_zuygTNCw--