From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 00:12:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3E6106566C for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:12:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@exonetric.com) Received: from relay0.exonetric.net (relay0.exonetric.net [82.138.248.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834348FC1B for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:12:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (unknown [78.86.207.85]) by relay0.exonetric.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB4057009; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mark Blackman In-Reply-To: <0E00DAFC-C39F-47DC-B9AF-16419C20997F@tao.org.uk> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:49:24 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <615F1346-E830-42E2-B229-4181B8BC56BD@exonetric.com> References: <0E00DAFC-C39F-47DC-B9AF-16419C20997F@tao.org.uk> To: Dr Josef Karthauser X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on a single disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:12:17 -0000 On 1 Mar 2011, at 23:27, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > Does it make sense to run zfs on a single disk? >=20 > I'm setting up a FreeBSD host over at a Xen provider, with a single = 80GB disk image. Ideally I'd like to run ZFS on this system, for = snapshot and flexible creation of filesystems and quotas. Has anyone got = any recommendations for me in this regard? Am I crazy? Not crazy, I do this as well, all the time just to get the management = capabilities and leave hardware RAID to manage the availability. - Mark