Brian Hechinger wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:35:30PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> We can only hope that ZFS boot will consign this never ending layout >> argument to the dust of history. >> > > The layout of disks and filesystems will always be a personal preference > and will never go away. You are likely to never agree with the way I > feel servers should be setup, and I'll likely never agree with the way you > feel servers should be setup. > > But with ZFS, the layout is a simple matter of creating filesystems, not slicing up drives. The filesystems are in a shared pool, so one doesn't have to know how big a particular slice will grow.
Once we can break out more datasets, the wheel will have turned full circle and we will be able to assign different properties to individual "slices", such as read only /usr. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
