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

[Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM]

John, 
Let me run this suggested edit by our ZFS writer and see what she says...
Thanks,
Barbara


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Subject: 	Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana supports only a single ZFS pool and
Date: 	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:01:23 -0300
From: 	John Meyer <john.meyer at wspot.net>
To: 	Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM
CC: 	Richard Bruce <doc at bruce-family.org>, indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
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Barbara --

I'm new to the group, but I'm an old Sun hand and would like to suggest 
the following:

"The OpenSolaris OS will install only onto ZFS, not UFS.  The single ZFS 
pool installed
will initially consist of the entire Solaris fdisk partition of the disk 
identified
at installation.  The user can optionally add additional disks to this 
pool for
mirroring purposes following installation."

How's that?

John

On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM 
<mailto: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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