Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> writes: [...]
It was good to hear from other posters that there is nothing wrong with, in my use case, putting data sets on same disc as rpool. > 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. But, those comments give me pause. I'm thinking my original setup which is in about the exact situation you mention, is maybe still a better way to go. I'm on OI, and it seems a good chance that either the day will come where OI is upgradable to hipster, and hipster developers start regular updates etc, or I will be faced with upgrading manually to something else. And in that case, as you say, I would be very glad I didn't have piles of data on my OS/rpool discs. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
