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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 08:25:32AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 04:29:16PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > > It's undesirable because the whole point of ZFS is to have one ZFS
> > > > volume for the whole system.
> > > This sounds more like a religious dogma than anything else.
> >
> > If "ZFS volume" means "ZFS pool" here, it is also blatant bullshit.
> > There are a lot of reasons for having more than one ZFS pool, the
> > easiest being separating SSDs and HDDs for fast vs cheap storage.
> >
> 
> No one is saying you can't have multiple ZFS pools in a system.  For
> example, there's nothing wrong with having a "system" pool where the OS is
> installed (say, on SSD), and a "storage" pool where all your data goes
> (say, on a dozen hard drives).
> 
> But, in order to properly support ZFS Boot Environments, you *NEED* to have
> /boot as a directory on the / (root) filesystem in a ZFS pool.

I am fully aware of that. It is also quite different from what Wojciech
wrote. As such, Alan, just go on...

Joerg