Brandon High <bh...@freaks.com> writes: [...] Harry wrote:
>> So having some data on rpool (besides the OS I mean) is not >> necessarily a bad thing then? Daniel C answered: >> Not at all; laptops would be screwed otherwise. Brandon H. responded: > The pool will resilver faster if it's got less data on it, which may > be important to you. > > The rpool only supports mirrored redundancy, and you can't add more > vdevs to it, so the ability to grow it is limited. > > It's also good practice to keep your OS install separate from your > data for maintenance reasons. For my home server, the rpool contains > only the OS install and everything else is in a separate pool. Apparently you are not disagreeing with Daniel Cs' comment above so I guess you are talking about disk partitions here? Currently two 500gb IDE drives make up rpool. So to have mirror redundancy of rpool, do you mean to create identical partitions on each disk for mirrored rpool, then use the other partition for data? I thought I remembered being told it was better not to partition disks but I'm probably just confused about it. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
