On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 16:59, Ross<no-re...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > But why do you have to attach to a pool? Surely you're just attaching to the > root > filesystem anyway? And as Richard says, since filesystems can be shrunk > easily > and it's just as easy to detach a filesystem from one machine and attach to > it from > another, why the emphasis on pools?
What filesystems are you talking about? A zfs pool can be "attached" to one and only one computer at any given time. All file systems in that pool are "attached" to the same computer. > > For once I'm beginning to side with Richard, I just don't understand why data > has to > be in separate pools to do this. All accounting for data and free blocks are done at the pool level. That is why you can share space between file systems. You could write code that made ZFS a cluster file system, maybe just for the pool but that is a lot of work and would require all attached computer so talk to each other. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
