ZFS on a single disk?

[Mark Blackman]

On 1 Mar 2011, at 23:27, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:

> Does it make sense to run zfs on a single disk?
> 
> I'm setting up a FreeBSD host over at a Xen provider, with a single 80GB disk image. Ideally I'd like to run ZFS on this system, for snapshot and flexible creation of filesystems and quotas. Has anyone got any recommendations for me in this regard? Am I crazy?

Not crazy, I do this as well, all the time just to get the management capabilities and
leave hardware RAID to manage the availability.

- Mark