On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Mr. T Doodle wrote: > I would like some opinions on what people are doing in regards to configuring > ZFS for root/boot drives: > > 1) If you have onbaord RAID controllers are you using them then creating the > ZFS pool (mirrored from hardware)?
I let ZFS do the mirroring. > 2) How many slices? lol One. > I can't seem to find any best practices such as the old EIS standards for UFS > filesystems......... Since I'm one of the co-authors for that document, I can assure you that most of what is in the EIS boot disk standard can be blissfully forgotten. Much of the document deals with the pain involved in systems where the file system was not integrated with the RAID system. The pain of such architectures led to the need for more documentation to help steer people into good, manageable configurations. One of the reasons we needed the EIS boot disk standard is because there was no single place to document such things in the existing structure: Solaris installation, platform installation, SVM, and VxVM are all documented separately, by separate organizations, each with their own agenda. The only place where all four come together for boot disks is in the EIS docs. IMHO, the need for such integrated docs is a bug. The best practices for ZFS boot disk are now captured in the ZFS Administration Guide (thanks Cindy!) -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
