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Date:      Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:49:24 +0000
From:      Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com>
To:        Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS on a single disk?
Message-ID:  <615F1346-E830-42E2-B229-4181B8BC56BD@exonetric.com>
In-Reply-To: <0E00DAFC-C39F-47DC-B9AF-16419C20997F@tao.org.uk>
References:  <0E00DAFC-C39F-47DC-B9AF-16419C20997F@tao.org.uk>

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

> Does it make sense to run zfs on a single disk?
>=20
> 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




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