On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Caiman team can make their own decision here, but we > decided to be more hard-nosed about disk space requirements in the > legacy install. If the pool is too small to accommodate the recommended > swap and dump zvols, then maybe this system isn't a good candidate for > a zfs root pool. Basically, we decided that since you almost > can't buy disks smaller than 60 GB these days, it's not worth much > effort to facilitate the setup of zfs root pools on disks that are smaller > than that. If you really need to do so, Jumpstart can be used to > set the dump and swap sizes to whatever you like, at the time > of initial install.
This is extremely bad for virtualized environments. If I have a laptop with 150 GB disk, a dual core processor, and 4 GB of RAM I would expect that I should have plenty of room to install 10+ virtual machines, and be able to run up to 2 - 4 of them at a time. Requiring 60 GB would mean that I could only install 2 virtual machines - which is on par with what I was doing with my previous laptop that had a 30 GB disk. The same argument can be made for VMware, LDoms, Xen, etc., but those are much more likely to use jumpstart for installations than laptop-based VM's. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
