ZFS snapdir readability (Crosspost)

[Chris Watson]

Peter, on your last point about 100% utilization, don’t you use quotas/user quotas to prevent that?

Chris

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> On Nov 7, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Peter Eriksson <pen at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> 
> The “easy” solution is to give each user (or group / project) their own ZFS filesystem. Then the “.zfs” directory would be inside the users own $HOME and you can set $HOME to 0700….
> 
> That is what we are doing. Granted it generates a “few” filesystems (like some 20000 per server (we have around 120k users), and then add hourly snapshots to each as “icing” on the cake). Mounting all those takes a bit of time - but luckily with the latest FreeBSD release things are much faster these days :-)
> 
> There are some other issues with that - like 100% full filesystems causing severe system slowdown during writes… So you really wanna have some monitoring system that warns for that.
> 
> - Peter
> 
> 
>> 
>> I recently noticed that all ZFS filesystems in FreeBSD allow access to
>> the .zfs directory (snapdir) for all users of the system. It is
>> possible to hide that directory using the snapdir option:
> 
> 
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