Hi Darren, > On 08/30/12 11:07, Anonymous wrote: > > Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading > > Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it > > better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it > > has only one drive. If ZFS detects something bad it might kernel panic and > > lose the whole system right? I realize UFS /might/ be ignorant of any > > corruption but it might be more usable and go happily on it's way without > > noticing? Except then I have to size all the partitions and lose out on > > compression etc. Any suggestions thankfully received. > > If you are using Solaris 11 or any of the Illumos based distributions > you have not choice you must use ZFS as your root/boot filesystem.
I did not realize that. I was trying to decide between S10 I use at work although on Sun hardware and S11 since I have no experience with it. > I would recommend that if physically possible attach a second drive to > make it a mirror. I understand that is the best way to go. > Personally I've run many many builds of Solaris on single disk laptop > systems and never has it lost me access to my data. The only time I > lost access to data on a single disk system was because of total hard > drive failure. I run with copies=2 set on my home directory and any > datasets I store data in when on a single disk system. > > However much much more importantly ZFS does not preclude the need for > off system backups. Even with mirroring, and snaphots you still have to > have a backup of important data elsewhere. No file system and more > importantly no hardware is that good. Words to live by! Thanks, Stu _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
