On 2013-03-01 14:44, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
I'd ask why? There's no requirement that there only be a single OI slice per disk. The installer and various other things push in that direction for some reason, but it's not a valid limitation that I can see.
Well, approaches good for smaller machines are not so good on bigger ones. Say you use this with an array of 48 drives in a box (Thumper) and wanted all vdev sized to be equal for balanced IO. Would you reserve the rpool size on each of the drives? (Thumper might be a bad example, only two disks are bootable anyway, so the tail of the rpool disk can be used for something else, like a big temp; but you get the overall picture). Now, there might be uses for smallish partitions on faster sectors with shorter seek strokes - you might use them for L2ARCs, ZILs, or just a pool with more speed-critical data. But that would be a contrived use for something you didn't intend to have in the first place, quite likely :) //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
