Yup, that definitely sounds like Amazonian FUD alright
On 9/9/13 12:32 PM, "Richard Elling" <richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote: >On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Simon Toedt <simon.to...@gmail.com> 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. > >Sounds like FUD from a Joyent competitor. Memory is used for cache in both >cases, so ext4 obviously does a worse job caching than ZFS. > -- richard > >-- > >richard.ell...@richardelling.com >+1-760-896-4422 > > > >_______________________________________________ >OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
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