> Yep; it's an argument about the Titanic deck chair > arrangement. Excuse me, but the same argument can be carried over to the separate pools for root FS and data scenario: most systems that will be running Solaris (as it picks up volume) are single systems with internal storage, usually two disks. What is the point of having separate pools if they reside on the same physical devices? If one or more of those devices experiences catastrophic failue, all pools, regardless of their separation, will be affected.
The whole point of a ZFS pool as Jeff Bonwick imagined it was to use ALL the storage capacity in your system optmially, without having to resort to discrete and often inaccurate sizing. To advocate separate pools for "root" and "data", is to defeat and go against the very idea that Jeff Bonwick was trying to solve and promote in the first place. This message posted from opensolaris.org
