Brian Cameron <[email protected]> writes: > Dave: > >> Specifically in the case of partitioning, I think we chose not to >> emphasize this as strongly, as ZFS makes it a far less interesting topic >> in general; you really want to just be giving it whole disks and making >> your life simpler. Perhaps that's being a little too optimistic about >> ZFS for some :-) > > For those OpenSolaris desktop users out there, figuring out how to set > up OpenSolaris in multi-partition environments where you may have > Linux, OpenSolaris, Windows, etc. on the same machine is complicated. > > I'd bet that most people who install OpenSolaris as a desktop platform > wouldn't want to dedicate their laptop's entire disk to a single OS.
Adding to that... but first Thanks to D. Minor for his comments. Another class of people who Brians comments might apply to are those who don't mind trying out Osol on a whole disk, but in doing so will miss out on many of nifty things about zfs since raidz does not accept just one disk. Thats exactly how I ended up disappoointed in the coverage of format, fdisk and partition. I wanted to partition and slice up my disk to be able to work with raidz. Maybe that isn't really important and all the same stuff applies to any zpool. I don't know yet... I'm just getting started. I had some trouble getting advice about making raidz on partitions, probably because it isn't the best usage of raidz or even of zfs. I bought the OS Bible to get that information. I didn't realize there was a `Bible' series David alludes to and took it to mean it would be chock full of solaris details, not citations to web pages. That David points out are included. David Wrote: > Specifically in the case of partitioning, I think we chose not to > emphasize this as strongly, as ZFS makes it a far less interesting > topic in general; you really want to just be giving it whole disks and > making your life simpler. Perhaps that's being a little too > optimistic about ZFS for some :-) I suspected this was the case but only after buying the book and realizing it didn't cover the older necessities. But I would point out that its called the Bible of OpenSolaris .. not the Bible of ZFS. Not meaning to be too clever here, and thanks for taking my post seriously. I am quite a rank amatuer after all. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
