[OmniOS-discuss] Wiki change

Jorge Schrauwen sjorge+ml at blackdot.be
Wed Jun 3 11:01:11 UTC 2015


rdsk makes more sense to me over dsk.

My memory is a bit vague but IIRC rdsk has less os overhead than dsk but 
I could be wrong. (Probably am)



On 2015-06-03 12:49, Dominik Hassler wrote:
> Could you please explain why to use 'dsk' instead of 'rdsk'? I never
> had any issues using 'rdsk'...
> 
> Btw. joyent uses 'rdsk' as well and since they ported KVM to Illumos I
> suppose they know what they are doing.
> 
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. Juni 2015 um 11:55 Uhr
>> Von: "Graham Stephens" <graham at thestephensdomain.com>
>> An: omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
>> Betreff: [OmniOS-discuss] Wiki change
>> 
>> Guys,
>> 
>> Where do I go to submit a change to the Wiki?
>> 
>> I know the KVM instructions page says it is not finished (at
>> http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/VirtualMachinesKVM), but the
>> instructions as they are will cause a system crash.
>> Ask me how I know!
>> 
>> The add device section should read:
>> 
>> set match="/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/zvol"
>> 
>> (no '*', and 'dsk' not 'rdsk')
>> 
>> The system crash has been reported to the illumOS group.
>> 
>> Cheers!
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