On 9-Aug-09, at 3:50 , Erik Trimble wrote:
Also, I'd recommend you not forget to remove the Swap and Dump volumes from the CF rpool. You could theoretically keep Dump, but, honestly, why bother. So, you could likely get a full install of OSOL on a 4GB CF card, and maybe even a 2GB card, especially if you are moving /var somewhere else.
So that does that mean moving /opt & /var will work under OSOL without confusing the BE system?
As far as extra space, I honestly wouldn't use it for anything like a ZIL or L2ARC cache. CF is even worse than the 1st-gen SSDs in terms of (random write) performance and doesn't have (much of) any of those nice advanced wear-leveling firmware stuff. I'd only use it for stuff that is WORM (or at least, hardly ever changes). A sharable /usr/local or /opt springs to mind...
Understood. I have 8G cards coming in, so space won't be an issue. I'd like to have the CF cards as read-only as possible though.
By sharable, what do you mean exactly? Thanks a lot for the advice, A. -- Adam Sherman CTO, Versature Corp. Tel: +1.877.498.3772 x113 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
