Peter, Another useful case for UFS root is keeping resource usage by virtual machines down.
With many workloads, the actual data being worked with isn't "local" to the VM anyhow and most of the machine is disposable anyhow. That negates most of the ZFS benefits. I hadn't realized you had UFS support, so I'll have to take Tribblix for a spin. :) --Matt -- Matt Lewandowsky Big Geek Greenviolet [email protected] http://www.greenviolet.net +1 415 578 5782 (US) +44 844 484 8254 (UK) Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: Peter Tribble Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 13:25 To: discuss Reply To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tribblix updated On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Chavdar Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I installed it (the kitchen-sink option) under VBox without problems – > using UFS. > I'm intrigued that somebody actually bothered to use the UFS option. Not that I don't think it's worthwhile, but it's probably unusual. Just to expand on why this exists - the first thing was to keep me honest, trying to avoid baking in assumptions about ZFS. The second is that, while we all know that ZFS is clearly the world's best file system and all that, it isn't necessarily the best choice in all possible scenarios. (Genuinely resource constrained systems in particular. And if you think arduino and Raspberry pi are interesting, consider x86duino.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175668-c2484562 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
