I see running a convential FS below a more robust one to be a risk factor.

G

On 11 Nov, 2016, at 12:27, Michael Lacks <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've wondered this as well for a long time. I've always assumed this was an 
> obvious question and have been afraid to ask.
> 
> I was under the impression that your "actual" file system is the one on the 
> bare metal. Would also like some clarification on this.
> 
>> It no more defeats the purpose of zfs than it does to run ZFS on a (single 
>> disk) laptop. ZFS gives you snapshots, replication, compression, flexible 
>> allocation policy, etc etc. It can detect corruption to help validate your 
>> infrastructure.
>> And of course you might not be using a single simple storage volume 
>> presented by vmware. You might have multiple luns from different vmware 
>> storage providers, or access external storage directly such as via iscsi. 
>> You might even be providing storage services to other vms.
> 
> 
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