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

[John Meyer]

Looks good to me.  Thanks, Barbara!

John

On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote:

> All,
> Here's the revised text I'll put in the doc:
>
> The OpenSolaris OS installs a ZFS root file system, not a UFS root  
> file
> system on the disk selected during installation. The ZFS pool  
> installed
> initially consists of the entire Solaris fdisk partition on the  
> selected
> disk. You can add additional disks to this pool to create a mirrored
> pool configuration after the initial installation is complete.
>
> Any further comments?
>
> Barbara
>
>
>
> Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote:
>> John, Let me run this suggested edit by our ZFS writer and see what
>> she says...
>> Thanks,
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> 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
>> References:     <25337497.1208281352777.JavaMail.Twebapp at oss-app1>
>> <4806596D.3030208 at Sun.COM>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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