zfs discuss - Feb 2006 - Trying out zfs commands with a single harddisk :-)

Hi,

I am new to solaris and zfs, so wanted to learn something on them.

I just have a single harddisk (40 GB)and a open solaris distro Belenix that
installs on to harddisk

Since I just want to try out commands of zfs (Belenix has zfs support) can I
install belenix on 20GB of harddisk and then create 2 10GB size (mirrored) disk
partitions for zfs partitions?

Will that work? Since I just need to try working out commands of I dont mind
performance problems.

Regards
Ganesh
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I guess you can do that but why not go with this aproach instead if you just
wan''t to try zfs?

http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=446
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>I guess you can do that but why not go with this aproach instead if you just
wan''t to try zfs?
>
>http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=446

Because it''s *really* slow?

Casper

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:14:33PM +0100, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> >I guess you can do that but why not go with this aproach instead if you
just wan''t to try zfs?
> >
> >http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=446
> 
> 
> Because it''s *really* slow?
even with forcedirectio? I wouldn''t have thought there would be a
very large overhead, in that case (at least I hope not?).

grant.

>even with forcedirectio? I wouldn''t have thought there would be a
>very large overhead, in that case (at least I hope not?).
All discussions and experiences of zfs on ufs were far less than
stellar, mostly because ufs behaves radically different from disks.

Casper

Hi,

Many thanks to all those who responded to my query.


As stefanjo pointed out I am just using files as disks to experiment with zfs
commands. Its working. As I said before i dont mind performance. Just want to
checkout zfs.

Thanks a lot

Regards
Ganesh
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