Linux has long had the ability to rebuild itself as part of a distribution, at least for the ones I've played with to any degree.
Is there anyone in a position to easily produce a buildable OI DVD? In particular, one that tracked the current build. Something that if I bought a machine and dedicated it to the task I could be set up to fix things by installing the distro. I spent a few hours reading wikis on the subject of building OI & illumos and was left with very low confidence that the contents were up to date. I was also left with the impression that setting up to do even a trivial task like turning on SD_INFO() would be quite labor intensive. I'm a geoscientist. So this is a tool I use, not an end goal. However, I do know a bit about operating systems and software. So I don't mind fixing things that affect me. Obviously, the overhead to understand the code for some things is prohibitive, but there is a lot of stuff (i.e. minor bugs) I could work on pretty easily. But setting up to build OI is not a pretty picture. FWIW I figured out that the hardware cost of building a bootable RAIDZ array as I did on the N40L was less than $3. It's not really bootable RAIDZ. It's a mirrored rpool in s0 with a RAIDZ pool in s1. I plan to move /export over to the RAIDZ pool, but haven't done it yet. But I've got 3 disks and can gracefully take a single disk failure while keeping the storage efficiency of RAIDZ. I'm trying to decide if I should add a 4th drive or not. 3.5 TB is a lot of space for my current needs, so 5.25 TB may be overkill. But then I could do RAIDZ2 if I had 4 drives ;-) Have Fun! Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
