ZFS on root and disk write caching.

Zaphod Beeblebrox zbeeble at gmail.com
Sat May 24 20:08:38 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Hill <lists at thefrog.net> wrote:


> but what struck me as odd is the desire to create two separate zpools - one
> for data storage and one for the system. i think one of zfs's greatest
> strengths is the abstraction/separation between disks and filesystems.


There are a few reasons to consider more than one zpool.  One is
performance.  Another is the ability to boot from it (AFAIK, you can only
boot from mirror'd pools).  The ZFS abstraction is cool --- but it's not
magic.


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