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

[Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM]

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
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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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