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

[Michal Bielicki]

Sounds very good to me :)

On 18 Apr 2008, at 03:01, John Meyer wrote:

> 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 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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