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From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: ZFS on a single disk?
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:27:55PM +0000, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Does it make sense to run zfs on a single disk?

Yes, the majority of our Solaris servers (thousands) at my workplace use
ZFS on a single disk (particularly the root disk).  We do this solely
for convenience (ZFS offers a lot of management advantages), and
consistency.

At home, I also use FreeBSD ZFS with single disks.  I still do not trust
ZFS-on-root when it comes to FreeBSD.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
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