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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:30:56 +0100
From:      Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The magic of ZFS and NFS (2nd try)
Message-ID:  <13471232.xpn8XerdpW@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net>
References:  <4257601.p3oiXZFr4n@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> <C2F282EB-FA11-4676-93E0-68112EB03A1D@ultra-secure.de> <12103095.viZFqgegqA@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> <D07A3E61-1871-48C0-B4AB-0EA1E994A4FC@ixsystems.com> <C64FC95C-D98B-4EAF-83CC-E443B56B38B2@ultra-secure.de>

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Rainer Duffner wrote:

> These lines get written into /etc/zfs/exports
> 
> I like it that way because if a filesystem is destroyed, I don’t have to
> remember removing it from /etc/exports.
> 
> I also admit I’m heavily influenced by Solaris on this particular setting…

I didn't come from Solaris and I wasn't a big fan of it during my time at 
university. It wasn't the really a problem with the OS itself but with the 
userland which really sucked rocks at the time. We are talking SunOS 5.8 
here.

I am guessing that in the future, ZFS will be far more important and UFS 
will become more and more exotic. Then it would be fine to config everything 
the ZFS-way. But currently, it seems pretty dumb to have to go through a 
case list like:

case
  fs ==  ZFS then /etc/zfs/exports
  fs ==  $EXOTIC_OTHER_FS then goto whereever
else goto /etc/exports

Couldn't help myself with the gotos there. :-D

On the other hand, if you can configure the same thing in a number of files, 
chaos is predestined. That is one machine I would not want to take care of.

Regards,
Christian




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