> With 320GB drive virtually being given away in > cornflake packets these > days, who cares?
... > Again, what's a spare 16G slice on a modern drive, 5% > or less. That's how "bloatware" came to be. It's also called "regression" in some circles. No space, no matter how big or small should be wasted because of a bad concept, especially when it doesn't have to be wasted at all. > Another advantage of a spare slice for /export/home > is it can be used > for ZFS until ZFS is supported by the installer. > Very handy for laptops. This is true, but it also stands that this is temporary, and what I'm looking for is a long-term solution. Temporary never was my style to begin with. > Probably a waste of time as the move is towards ZFS > boo and snap upgrades. In case you haven't noticed, some people on this list maintain that there should be discrete pools for the OS and "data". My position on this is that this would be a serious error which goes against the very idea of ZFS pooling all the storage together for optimal space utilization. It is simply inefficient and unnecessarily wasteful. This message posted from opensolaris.org
