I think my initial response got mangled. Oops. >creating a ZFS pool out of files stored on another ZFS pool. The main >reasons that have been given for not doing this are unknown edge and >corner cases that may lead to deadlocks, and that it creates a complex >structure with potentially undesirable and unintended performance and >reliability implications.
Computers are continually encountering unknown edge and corner cases in the various things they do all the time. That's what we have testing for. >Deadlocks may occur in low resource >conditions. If resources (disk space and RAM) never run low, the >deadlock scenarios may not arise. It sounds like you mean any low resource condition. Presumably, utilizing complex pool structures like these will tax resources, but there are many other ways to do that. -- Maurice Volaski, maurice.vola...@einstein.yu.edu Computing Support Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
