On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I recently installed OpenSoalris 200906 on a 10GB primary partition on >>my laptop. I noticed there wasn't any option for customizing the >>slices inside the solaris partition. After installation, there was >>only a single slice (0) occupying the entire partition. Now the >>problem is that I need to set up a UFS slice for my development. Is >>there a way to shrink slice 0 (backing storage for the zpool) and make >>room for a new slice to be used for UFS? >> >>I also tried to create UFS on another primary DOS partition, but >>apparently only one Solaris partition is allowed on one disk. So that >>failed... > > > Can you create a zvol and use that for ufs? Slow, but ... > > Casper > >
Casper, thanks for the tip! Actually I'm not sure if this would work for me. I wanted to use directio to bypass the file system cache when reading/writing files. That's why I chose UFS instead of ZFS. Now if I create UFS on top of zvol, I'm not sure if a call to directio() would actually do its work... Yi _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
