Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-19 Thread Ed Gould
Richard Elling wrote: warning: noun/verb overload. In my context, swap is a verb. It is also a common shorthand for "swap space." -- --Ed begin:vcard fn:Ed Gould n:Gould;Ed org:Sun Microsystems, Inc.;Solaris Cluster adr;dom:M/S UMPK17-201;;17 Network Circle;Menlo Park;CA;94025 email;in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Elling
Dagobert Michelsen wrote: Hi Richard, The consensus best practice is to have enough RAM that you don't need to swap. If you need to swap, your life will be sad no matter what your disk config is. From my understanding Solaris does not overcommit memory allocation, so every allocation must

[zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-19 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Richard, > The consensus best > practice is to have enough RAM that you don't need to > swap. If you need to > swap, your life will be sad no matter what your disk > config is. >From my understanding Solaris does not overcommit memory allocation, so every >allocation must be backed by some f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-12 Thread Bart Smaalders
Richard Elling wrote: [sorry for the late reply, the original got stuck in the mail] clarification below... Ian Collins wrote: Thanks for the heads up. I'm building a new file server at the moment and I'd like to make sure I can migrate to ZFS boot when it arrives. My current plan is to cr

[zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-12 Thread Richard Elling
[sorry for the late reply, the original got stuck in the mail] clarification below... > > Ian Collins wrote: > > > Thanks for the heads up. > > > > > > I'm building a new file server at the moment and > > I'd like to make sure I > > > can migrate to ZFS boot when it arrives. > > > > > > My current

[zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-12 Thread Gary Gendel
This is great news. A question crossed my mind. I'm sure it's a dumb one but I thought I'd ask anyway... How will LiveUpdate work when the boot partition is in the pool? Gary This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-09 Thread Lin Ling
Ivan Wang wrote: Hi, However, this raises another concert that during recent discussions regarding to disk layout of a zfs system (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=25679&tstart=0) it was said that currently we'd better give zfs the whole device (rather than slices) and kee

[zfs-discuss] Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-08 Thread Ivan Wang
> Ian Collins wrote: > > Thanks for the heads up. > > > > I'm building a new file server at the moment and > I'd like to make sure I > > can migrate to ZFS boot when it arrives. > > > > My current plan is to create a pool on 4 500GB > drives and throw in a > > small boot drive. > > > > Will I be ab