On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No >> typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what >> filesystem you want to use for your root during installation? >> > > Not on OpenIndiana, the whole of packaging etc essentially > requires ZFS root - so the same limitation will likely apply to > any distro using IPS. > > You can install Tribblix to ufs; I'm not aware of any other > distro that offers it as an option. (You might have some joy > with OpenSXCE, although that uses the same Caiman > installer as OI so intercepting it might be tricky.) > > Seriously, though, I would love to know *why* you don't want > to install to ZFS. I can think of several reasons myself (which is > why I added the option to Tribblix) but this is quite a specialist > area, so what's your use case?
Running with less memory maybe? ZFS has a well-deserved reputation for being memory hungry, something which keeps Solaris and Illumos out of the cloud business - as the Amazon sales people say you can have six Linux VMs with ext4fs for one Solaris VM with ZFS in the same memory footprint. Simon _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
