ZFS on a single disk?

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 4 Mar 2011, at 12:13, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Dr Josef Karthauser <joe at tao.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> p.s. there are some HVM XEN hosts out there, but it looks like they're all
>> _much_ more expensive that the hosting provider that I'm considering, which
>> appears to be offering a sweet spot of memory/cost.
> 
> PAE? What is this, the 90s? ;)
> 
> i386 + ZFS is not a wise move IMO. Any reason why you cannot use amd64?
> 

Hey Tom,

The problem actually boils down to the fact that our amd64 XEN support isn't entirely para-virtualized, which means it needs hardware virtualisation support (HVM) to run. There hosting provider I'm looking at doesn't support HVM, leaving me unable to take advantage of amd64 in this scenario. There are other providers that do, but they are twice as much cost for half as much ram.

Joe