Not sure if I am remembering this correctly, but I have the impression that 
using more than one zpool on SmartOS is discouraged - is this true?

I’ve been running a SmartOS server for a few years now, with no problems.  It 
has a 256GB drive that was just fine for the mail server and misc uses that it 
does.  However I just had my old Solaris 10 box die.  I moved its 1TB hard 
drive over to the SmartOS box and SmartOS sees the ‘tank’ zpool just fine. 

I’d like to create a zone to replace the old Solaris machine’s functions (ssh 
login for cvs/svn/git, plus Apache, Postgres and Tomcat).  But I’m wondering if 
I should leave the ‘tank’ zpool as-is or put in a larger drive for ‘zones’ and 
migrate all the filesystems over to it.  In other words, is there a downside to 
having a second zpool (‘tank’ from the old Solaris machine) on the SmartOS box 
and letting the new zone hit it using NFS?  Under Solaris 10, all the ‘home’ 
directories were auto-mounted over NFS, so I don’t think it would be much of a 
performance hit.

Any opinions?

Cheers,

Greg Trasuk

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