Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 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.
>   
The context here was using Solaris UFS slices with ZFS boot.  The answer
was don't bother, use ZFS filesystems instead.

-- 
Ian.

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