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Subject: Re: ZFS on root and disk write caching.
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On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Hill <lists@thefrog.net> wrote:


> but what struck me as odd is the desire to create two separate zpools - one
> for data storage and one for the system. i think one of zfs's greatest
> strengths is the abstraction/separation between disks and filesystems.


There are a few reasons to consider more than one zpool.  One is
performance.  Another is the ability to boot from it (AFAIK, you can only
boot from mirror'd pools).  The ZFS abstraction is cool --- but it's not
magic.