Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-20 Thread Jozef Hamar
Hi, I read the other posts in this thread, they look fine. But still, I thing you have bad concept. Generally, it is a good idea to separate root pool from data, but as I understand, you have only one physical disk. I would install Solaris using ZFS as the root filesystem on the whole disk an

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-19 Thread Miles Nordin
> "h" == Hua writes: h> b. Create a 10G Solaris partition for system and an "other" h> type partition of 990G for data. h> So far the zpool on top of a fdisk partition seems working h> fine. But I don't think this is usual/normal way yeah fmthard/prtvtoc/format/fdisk ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Hua wrote: I am building a system on a small x86 system by using Solaris 10 10/09. The system disk is 1TB. As Solaris only take 6GB, I plan to allocate the rest to a zpool for data. I want to keep system and data as separated as possible, therefore I tried a. Create a 10G Solaris partition fo

[zfs-discuss] zpool on fdisk partition

2009-11-19 Thread Hua
I am building a system on a small x86 system by using Solaris 10 10/09. The system disk is 1TB. As Solaris only take 6GB, I plan to allocate the rest to a zpool for data. I want to keep system and data as separated as possible, therefore I tried a. Create a 10G Solaris partition for install sys