On Wed, 7 May 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > It seems like kind of a waste to allocate 1TB to the operating system, > > would there be any issue in taking a slice of those boot disks and > > creating a zfs mirror with them to add to the pool? > > You don't want to go there. Keep in mind that there is currently no way > to reclaim a device after it has been added to the pool other than > substituting another device for it. Also, the write performance to these > slices would be less than normal.
That's a good point; I do recall reading that ZFS is more efficient when given an entire disk rather than a slice. Thanks for the input... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
