On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Mr. T Doodle wrote:> I would like some opinions on what people are doing in regards to
configuring ZFS for root/boot drives:
>
> 1) If you have onbaord RAID controllers are you using them then creating
the ZFS pool (mirrored from hardware)?
I let ZFS do the mirroring.
> 2) How many slices? lol
One.
> I can''t seem to find any best practices such as the old EIS
standards for UFS filesystems.........
Since I''m one of the co-authors for that document, I can assure you
that
most of what is in the EIS boot disk standard can be blissfully forgotten.
Much of the document deals with the pain involved in systems where
the file system was not integrated with the RAID system. The pain of
such architectures led to the need for more documentation to help
steer people into good, manageable configurations.
One of the reasons we needed the EIS boot disk standard is because
there was no single place to document such things in the existing
structure: Solaris installation, platform installation, SVM, and VxVM
are all documented separately, by separate organizations, each with
their own agenda. The only place where all four come together for
boot disks is in the EIS docs. IMHO, the need for such integrated docs
is a bug. The best practices for ZFS boot disk are now captured in the
ZFS Administration Guide (thanks Cindy!)
-- richard