On 07 December, 2006 - dudekula mastan sent me these 2,9K bytes: > Hi Folks, > > Man pages of ZFS and ZPOOL, clearly saying that it is not good > (recommended) to use some portion of device for ZFS file system > creation. > > Hardly what are the problems if we use only some portion of disk > space for ZFS FS ? > > or > > Why i can't use one partition of device for ZFS file ststem and > another partition of for some other purpose ?
You can. > Will it cause any problems if i use one partition of device for ZFS > and another partition for some other purpose ? No. > Why all people are strongly recommending to use whole disk (not part > of disk) for creation zpools / ZFS file system ? One thing is performance; ZFS can enable/disable write cache in the disk at will if it has full control over the entire disk.. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
