> 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.
For more than two disks, a single pool (with redundancy) would be more wasteful (since one might be able to use raidz rather than mirroring for the redudancy on the non-OS data; but the OS can at most boot off of a mirror). This message posted from opensolaris.org
