Recommended place for home directories?

[Free as in Nas]

I'm a little bit confused about where I should be putting my Users home directories in a ZFS filesystem. Should they be part of the share or should the share be in the home directory or should the home directories be completely separated?

I realize there probably isn't a one size fits all solution, but I'm curious if there are any best practice recommendations.

 

[paleoN]

As you said there isn't any one solution. If you elaborate more on your setup and what you are going for you will likely get some suggestions.

 

[Free as in Nas]

Well my plan was to have 6 shares and 2 users.

2 AFP shares for time machine backups, one for each macbook.
4 CIFS shares,

• 1 for windows backup
• 1 for my share
• 1 for my girlfriend's share
• 1 for a common share accessible by both users

My thinking was that each of these shares should have their own Dataset so they can be assigned a quota. I just don't know where the home drives fit into this scheme.

Once I upgrade to 8.2 my plan is to have torrents go into my share and the UPNP media server share the relavent directories in each of the shares.

 

[paleoN]

If you elaborate more on your setup and what you are going for you will likely get some suggestions.

Or you could get no suggestions.

Your setup sounds fine. I would have the home directories separate or have the shares under them. I would probably put the torrents on their own Dataset rather than in your share. I'm assuming you are using quota's on yourself to help keep track of the used space?

 

[Free as in Nas]

I am using Quotas mainly to keep the automated back ups from becoming too large. Time machine will use as much space as it can, and I think you can manage the space used by Windows backup a little bit more, but I am not positive.

Is it wise to nest datasets in other datasets? For instance if a have /home/ dataset for the home drives, can I nest a /home/user1/share, /home/user1/torrents and /home/user1/backup datasets inside them? Does it work just like traditional file system mounts?

 

[Free as in Nas]

Anyone have any more input on this?