On 22/02/10 02:35 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > On Mon, February 22, 2010 13:21, Gavin Maltby wrote: > >> On 22 February 2010 13:06, Murray Blakeman >> <Murray.Blakeman at synergy.com.au> wrote: >> >> >>> A 10GB Boot/Root pool mirrored across 5 drives >>> >> You'll want a much bigger root pool that that, I suspect. 10G is (just) >> enough for a single boot environment, but it's always nice to >> have room for several. >> >> I always like to have physically separate root disks. If you have >> space for them I'd get a couple of smaller disks to act as >> a root mirror (e.g., I have 2 x 250GB drives for a mirrored >> rpool) and then use all of your big data disks in a data >> pool. >> >> > Just to second what he said. > > I have 2x160Gb disks in a mirrored root pool, and (at the moment) 4x500Gb > disks in a RAIDZ. > > Much safer as if something takes out my root, like a dud update or the > like, my data space is safe(r). > > Also, IIRC, ZFS works better when given *entire* disks to work with, > rather than slices. > > Cheers, > Gary B-) > Just to confirm what the others have said, it is not a recommendation of SUN (even though it is possible) to use pools on individual slices. Using a root pool on separate disks would be a much better option, if available and is a SUN recommended configuration.
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