Another possible use: developing zfs and not having to worry about your test pool and root pool becoming unusable at the same time.
Jeff. > On Dec 4, 2013, at 19:06, Matt Lewandowsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 | Modify Your Subscription > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
