I'm sorry: I guess I gave incorrect information in that [url=http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=112068&tstart=0]other thread[/url]. The author of the blog entry I refer you to there apparently has two zpools on the same disk, as described in that entry. He has a second zpool for the same reason you do: "There is also a separate zpool that contains data that needs to be preserved in case a re-installation of Solaris is required." (Personally, I have enough confidence in the osol update process that I am willing to forgo a separate data zpool, so that I can have one zpool take up the whole disk, increasing flexibility.)
When I wrote that having two zpools on the same disk is deprecated, I think that what I was thinking of is that you can't have two Solaris boot partitions on the same disk. Also, using more than one partition on the same disk for THE SAME zpool is deprecated, I believe. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
