[osol-discuss] Re: best dual HD install-- RAID vs ZFS?

2006-10-14 Thread Christian Kelly
If you are keen to play around with ZFS, you can also assign a partition on a disk to ZFS. So you could do some thing like this: Disk0 slice 0 / 10G slice 1 swap 1G slice 7 assigned to ZFS Disk1 slice 7 assigned to ZFS That way you could mirror your home dir on a ZFS pool, do snapshots...etc.,

[osol-discuss] Re: best dual HD install-- RAID vs ZFS?

2006-10-12 Thread UNIX admin
Solaris currently does not support running from a ZFS / (root) file system. There are hacks one can pull to do this, but currently it can only be done on an OpenSolaris distro (like Nevada or Solaris Express) and not on Solaris proper. Work to get the Solaris kernel booting off of a ZFS file sy