Re: [zfs-discuss] Limitations of ZFS

2006-12-07 Thread Roch - PAE
> Why all people are strongly recommending to use whole disk (not part > of disk) for creation zpools / ZFS file system ? One thing is performance; ZFS can enable/disable write cache in the disk at will if it has full control over the entire disk.. ZFS will also flush the WC when nec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Limitations of ZFS

2006-12-07 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 07 December, 2006 - dudekula mastan sent me these 2,9K bytes: > Hi Folks, > > Man pages of ZFS and ZPOOL, clearly saying that it is not good > (recommended) to use some portion of device for ZFS file system > creation. > > Hardly what are the problems if we use only some portion

[zfs-discuss] Limitations of ZFS

2006-12-07 Thread dudekula mastan
Hi Folks, Man pages of ZFS and ZPOOL, clearly saying that it is not good (recommended) to use some portion of device for ZFS file system creation. Hardly what are the problems if we use only some portion of disk space for ZFS FS ? or