[OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

[Toomas Soome]

> On 1. May 2021, at 10:31, Michelle <michelle at msknight.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I looked over my notes and the last time I did this was in 2014.
> 
> My preference has always been to run OI on its own drive and have the
> main ZFS tank as a "whole drive" basis. However, thanks to the QNAP,
> that's changed.
> 
> In 2014 I did a test. I took two 40gig drives and did the partitions as
> an all free hog on partition 0 ... I was simply testing the ability to
> configure rpool on two drives and have both active, so if one failed
> the other would keep running the OS.
> 
> My immediate thought is to have 100gig for the OS on partition 0 and
> the rest on partition 1. Also, turn on auto expand for the tank pool
> and off for the rpool.
> 
> That's my gut feel.
> 
> Anyone got any advice to offer please, before I commit finger to
> keyboard?
> 
> Michelle.

In general, it is good idea to keep autoexpand off, this is especially for mirror. You do not want to have unexpected pool growth.

rgds,
toomas