On 9/9/13 7:09 PM, Simon Toedt wrote: > 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.
If you're planning to run on Illumos-derived OSes in the cloud, seriously, go to a cloud provider who gives you zones. Much less overhead with much higher performance at the same price point. -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
