[OpenIndiana-discuss] Blocking disk operations

[dan]

Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com>:

> Why do you use ufs instead of zfs?

A point to underline, I found no directions about zfs in the installation doc pages:
I think you should give immediate acccess to a doc section pertaining disk partitioning and zfs.
In facts, beside having already tried before OpenIndiana with Mate and Caja, I found myself
in harry launched on the new OS by the online installation doc and the man only.
Searching the man for sup the first ideas that I came with was fdisk and newfs (nb. coming from
OpenBSD).

An other point was: I could appreciate to boot up from usb devices.
Well, this was important working on sticks since 14 years ago, but looking also to the sembiances of Open Indiana
(swap constraint of 10gb, almost on my 10gb ram system) I finally gave it up with my 32gb sticks (for backup as well).

However, the transfer I prepared this afternoon and I will start now works by gtar on multi volume of paxs
from a fat32 usb disk to fat32 partition on an other usb disk. I do not know if it is the proper situation to see
some degrading multitask performances. Past transfers were barely other gtars in paxs from fat32 to ufs (both
usb disks). Gtar paxing by fat32 has been my only means available to migrate data from ffs.

Dan
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