On Friday 19 December 2008 03:32:01 Ian Collins wrote: > On Fri 19/12/08 14:52 , Shawn Joy shawn....@sun.com sent: > > I have read the ZFS best practice guide located at > > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices > >_Guide However I have questions whether we support using slices > > for data on the same disk as we use for ZFS boot. > > Why would you want to do this instead of giving ZFS the whole disk? > Do you have compelling reasons to use UFS rather than ZFS > filesystems for data?
I find ZFS's eager to monopolize the disk quite irritating: sometimes there OSs on the same disk. BTW, how much does ZFS slow down (on average) when using slices instead of the whole disk? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
