On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've read that it is a bad idea to have datasets on the same disc that rpool is on. I'm not sure why that is so.
The main reason why is that then you can't just blow away the OS install pool and reinstall from scratch without needing to do something with the data. For example, you might want to install another OS for which there is no current upgrade path. With zfs on a pool separate from rpool, then you could install a different OpenIndiana, Linux with ZFS, FreeBSD, OmniOS, Tribblix, etc., and just import the existing data pool. You could also multi-boot the system with different OSs which support ZFS and each could import your data pool.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
