> Doug Scott wrote: > >>It is likely that "best practice" will be to > separate > >>the root pool (that is, the pool where dataset are > >>allocated) > > > > On a system with plenty of disks it is a good idea. > I started > > doing this on my laptop, and later decided to > combine root and > > data into one pool. The filesystem boundary gave me > sufficent > > separation. Having separate pools made me have 2 > partitions > > with fixed boundries, which limited ZFS's > flexibility. > > For example, ISTR that pools can be exported, but > individual filesystems within a > pool cannot be exported separately from the pool in > which they are located. That is correct, but on my laptop I have little need to export the pool. Since diskspace is a limited resource I prefer that I did not have fixed partitions, and let all filesystems be able to access the remaining space. I hit the a partition boundy the first time I cloned more root zfs filesystem, thus I changed to a single pool. I can still use 'zfs send' to copy any of the filesystems elsewhere.
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