2011/11/11 Jeff Savit <jeff.sa...@oracle.com> > On 11/10/2011 06:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss > <zfs-discuss>-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Savit > > Also, not a good idea for > performance to partition the disks as you suggest. > > Not totally true. By default, if you partition the disks, then the disk > write cache gets disabled. But it's trivial to simply force enable it thus > solving the problem. > > > Granted - I just didn't want to get into a long story. With a > self-described 'newbie' building a storage server I felt the best advice is > to keep as simple as possible without adding steps (and without adding > exposition about cache on partitioned disks - but now that you brought it > up, yes, he can certainly do that). > > Besides, there's always a way to fill up the 1TB disks :-) Besides the OS > image, it could also store gold images for the guest virtual machines, > maintained separately from the operational images. >
how big of the solaris os'partition do you suggest? regards, Jeff > > > > > -- > > > *Jeff Savit* | Principal Sales Consultant > Phone: 602.824.6275 | Email: jeff.sa...@oracle.com | Blog: > http://blogs.oracle.com/jsavit > Oracle North America Commercial Hardware > Operating Environments & Infrastructure S/W Pillar > 2355 E Camelback Rd | Phoenix, AZ 85016 > > > >
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