Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:51:17 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386? Message-ID: <14989d6e0801070051u4ccf2ae5oba77579674c1837d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a2b6592c0801070020v5c879ea9xbf94610b4584ca81@mail.gmail.com> References: <fll63b$j1c$1@ger.gmane.org> <4780E546.9050303@FreeBSD.org> <9bbcef730801060651y489f1f9bw269d0968407dd8fb@mail.gmail.com> <4780EF09.4090908@FreeBSD.org> <flr0ie$euj$1@ger.gmane.org> <47810BE3.4080601@FreeBSD.org> <4781227B.5020800@rcn.com> <47814EAB.70405@FreeBSD.org> <14989d6e0801062310q6992630et93370d5d2d0be2c7@mail.gmail.com> <a2b6592c0801070020v5c879ea9xbf94610b4584ca81@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello igor, On 07/01/2008, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote: > On 07/01/2008, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't think so. My guess is that partitioning/slicing disks is a > > pain for most of the users. How does one tell how big a filesystem > > should be, even or especially on the desktop? I found myself having to > > cope with full filesystems several times. > > That could be a good thing (think programs creating lots of files and > not cleaning up after themselves)... > > > Using ZFS even on one disk just to get rid of fixed partition/slice > > boundaries is a good thing. > > How is that different to creating one / slice of FFS? With ZFS there aren't fixed boundaries as there are with the slice/partition theme. You can use reservation and quota to determine how much free space is guaranteed for a ZFS and the maximum size a ZFS is allowed to grow to. If you feel that these boundaries/limitations aren't of any use anymore, changing/removing them is just a matter of "zfs set...". > Igor :-) Christian
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