18:44:40 <aru_> I know this isn't stricly omnios-related question, but worth a try anyway I guess. Is it ok to mix system and data on a single pool or is that considered bad practice?
18:50:02 <ptribble> Depends on what storage devices you have available. If you have the luxury of having devices so that you can construct separate system and data pools, then separating them would be recommended.
18:51:21 <ptribble> If you can't then create separate zfs filesystems for data, so that you can replicate and/or back up the data independently of the OS.
18:54:57 <aru_> I'm afraid I don't have the luxury
18:55:13 <aru_> the joys of repurposing machines for something they weren't made to do
19:01:23 <ptribble> Yep. Most of my systems are single-device so only have a single pool which obviously has to have data on it as well
19:02:50 <ptribble> On AWS I usually create 2 volumes, one for the OS and one for data, but that's the flexibility you get with cloud
19:04:18 <rmustacc> Even if you can't ahve a separate pool, if you use the zfs dataset hierarchy for that, e.g. create a data dataset or something like that and put everything like taht under that, it still gives you some of the nice backup and replication properties.
19:13:43 <aru_> thank you both