On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Yi Zhang wrote: > 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...
zfs set primarycache=metadata filesystem -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
