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Subject: Re: ZFS-inly server and dedicated ZIL
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> wrote:
> What is not clear for me is why one could want more than one pool in one
> machine?
>

For me, I have a mirrored pool on SSDs that serves as a root pool, and
then a bunch of slow spinning rust in JBOD arrays for bulk storage. I
don't need the secondary pools to boot up/use the system, which makes
it easier if things go wrong.

Cheers

Tom