On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Hello Al,
>
> Thursday, January 25, 2007, 6:52:58 PM, you wrote:
>
> AH> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote:
>
> >> Tim Cook wrote:
> >> > I guess I should clarify what I'm doing.
> >> >
> >> > Essentially I'd like to have the / and swap on the first 60GB of the
> >> > disk. Then use the remaining 100GB as a zfs partition to setup zones
> >> > on. Obviously the snapshots are extremely useful in such a setup :)
> >> >
> >> > Does my plan sound feasible from both a usability and performance
> >> > standpoint?
>
> AH> For a laptop scenario, where you don't have any option to add a 2nd drive,
> AH> I agree with Darren and others. But in any other usage scenario, I don't
> AH> think its a good idea. Perhaps you could post some details about your
> AH> hardware environment and why its limited to a single disk drive?
>
> AH> You understand that if ZFS detects any data corruption and you don't have
> AH> any designed-in data redundancy, ZFS will make the pool unavailable and
> AH> you are SOL.
>
> It's not true. Metadata will still be in 2 and 3 copies (2 for fs
> metadata and 3 for pool metadata) spread on disks with checksums. So
> when he will enocunter any problems to only part of a disk he should
> be ok when it comes to pool/fs consistency and only user data will be
> affected. However he should be able to determine which files are
> affected (with zpool status) and just delete them. Few days ago a fix
> was integrated so zpool status should show actual file names instead
> of just inode.
Thanks for the correction Robert.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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