[indiana-discuss] Indiana supports only a single ZFS pool and

[Michal Bielicki]

If I read the conversation correctly, the word support is wrong here.  
It seems the install can be done on ZFS only but of course UFS and  
ther file systems are supported on a running system.

Michal

On 16 Apr 2008, at 21:54, barbara.lundquist at sun.com wrote:
> All,
> I can rewrite the existing sentence in the "Limitations for the
> OpenSolaris 2008.05 release" section of the Getting Started:
>
> Existing text:
>
> "The OpenSolaris OS has ZFS support only. The installation of the
> OpenSolaris OS supports
> only one pool on one disk."
>
> Revised text:
>
> "The OpenSolaris OS has ZFS support only. The installation of the  
> OpenSolaris OS supports
> only one pool on one disk. However, the user can manually add  
> additional disks and set up mirroring following installation."
>
>
> Any further comments?
> Barbara
>
>
>
>
>
> Richard Bruce wrote:
>>> The limitation applies only to the pool created by
>>> the installer.
>>> Perhaps some re-wording is in order on that page, but
>>> ZFS is in no way
>>> crippled in Indiana.  Nor are UFS and other file
>>> systems missing, which
>>> one might infer from the first sentence of the
>>> quote...
>>>
>>
>> This makes MUCH more sense.  The documentation should be updated.
>>
>> It should be clear that the installer requires installation to a  
>> single pool on a single disk although additional drives/pools may  
>> be configured following installation.  As written it currently  
>> implies that only a single drive is supported by the OS.  Limiting  
>> the operating system and ZFS to only a single drive seemed quite  
>> arbitrary and would seemingly defeat the purpose of a file system  
>> like ZFS.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Richard
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Michal Bielicki
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