On 25/1/07 3:16, "Jeremy Teo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/25/07, Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just want to verify, if I have say, 1 160GB disk, can I format it so that the >> first say 40GB is my main UFS parition with the base OS install, and then >> make the rest of the disk zfs? Or even better yet, for testing purposes make >> two 60GB partitions out of the rest of it and make them a *mirror*? Or do I >> have to give zfs the entire disk? > > If you're talking about slices, yes. (partitions). You can give zfs > just a slice of the disk, while giving UFS another slice. You can > mirror across slices (though performance will be sub optimal).
The zpool man page suggests that you can use a regular file as a backing store, though this is only really intended for experimental purposes. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
