* Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-04 13:35]: > First off - well done. I have run across a few bumps (bugs logged) > but overall things have gone pretty well. If I wasn't fighting > hardware issues (e.g. bad sectors) this would have been the easiest > installation of an OS I have ever done. By and large, the > installation did "the right thing" and once installed the system is > immediately usable for a number of tasks. > > Now for the real reason for writing... > > With zfs root, can compression be enabled? Given the relatively slow > speed of most hard drives today, I would expect that there would be > performance benefits in having it enabled. This is particularly true > for laptops. I agree; this one's on my list of questions, too. I guess we should file a bug to track the answers.
> Has there already been discussion on the real name for the default > root zpool? As I am creating new file systems or changing parameters > on existing ones, zpl_slim doesn't just roll off the fingers. I > suspect that a few years from now "slim" will be a pleasant memory but > not something that we probably want in the name of all root pools. I > would suggest that the root pool be named "root" or "rp". A very > short name is desirable to make command output that displays zfs file > system lists more compact. Agree here, too. Plus I suspect that the Snap Upgrade work needs a convention around the root pool (to track related BEs) in any case. If you want to push the answers in a certain direction, then we should probably go ask on caiman-discuss. - Stephen * If you have a defect.opensolaris.org account, I'll make some bugs and put you on the CC list. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
