John,
Let me run this suggested edit by our ZFS writer and see what she says...
Thanks,
Barbara
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Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana supports only a single ZFS pool
and
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:01:23 -0300
From: John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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CC: Richard Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org
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Barbara --
I'm new to the group, but I'm an old Sun hand and would like to suggest
the following:
"The OpenSolaris OS will install only onto ZFS, not UFS. The single ZFS
pool installed
will initially consist of the entire Solaris fdisk partition of the disk
identified
at installation. The user can optionally add additional disks to this
pool for
mirroring purposes following installation."
How's that?
John
On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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All,
I can rewrite the existing sentence in the "Limitations for the
OpenSolaris 2008.05 release" section of the Getting Started:
Existing text:
"The OpenSolaris OS has ZFS support only. The installation of the
OpenSolaris OS supports
only one pool on one disk."
Revised text:
"The OpenSolaris OS has ZFS support only. The installation of the
OpenSolaris OS supports
only one pool on one disk. However, the user can manually add
additional disks and set up mirroring following installation."
Any further comments?
Barbara
Richard Bruce wrote:
The limitation applies only to the pool created by
the installer.
Perhaps some re-wording is in order on that page, but
ZFS is in no way
crippled in Indiana. Nor are UFS and other file
systems missing, which
one might infer from the first sentence of the
quote...
This makes MUCH more sense. The documentation should be updated.
It should be clear that the installer requires installation to a
single pool on a single disk although additional drives/pools may be
configured following installation. As written it currently implies
that only a single drive is supported by the OS. Limiting the
operating system and ZFS to only a single drive seemed quite
arbitrary and would seemingly defeat the purpose of a file system
like ZFS.
Thanks!
Richard
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