Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Irek Szczesniak
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Simon Toedt wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Rennie Allen
Yup, that definitely sounds like Amazonian FUD alrightŠ On 9/9/13 12:32 PM, "Richard Elling" wrote: >On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Simon Toedt wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble >>wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesyste

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread wessels
Yes, I've very specific use case for this. But it's all ZFS development related. So I don't want any ZFS hacks messing up my root. Any suggestions you could do that with OpenSolaris for example. @Saso, I assume you have an UFS root for your ZFS related work? If not how do you tinker with ZFS witho

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Simon Toedt wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: >> Hi, >> >> topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No >>> typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what >>> filesystem you want to use for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Simon Toedt wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble > > > > Seriously, though, I would love to know *why* you don't want > > to install to ZFS. I can think of several reasons myself (which is > > why I added the option to Tribblix) but this is quite

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Marion Hakanson
simon.to...@gmail.com said: > Running with less memory maybe? ZFS has a well-deserved reputation for being > memory hungry, something which keeps Solaris and Illumos out of the cloud > business - as the Amazon sales people say you can have six Linux VMs with > ext4fs for one Solaris VM with ZFS in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 9/9/13 7:09 PM, Simon Toedt wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: >> Hi, >> >> topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No >>> typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what >>> filesystem you want to use for your root du

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Peter Tribble
Hi, topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No > typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what > filesystem you want to use for your root during installation? > Not on OpenIndiana, the whole of packaging etc essentially requires ZFS root - so th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Simon Toedt
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > Hi, > > topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No >> typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what >> filesystem you want to use for your root during installation? >> > > Not on OpenIndiana,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread wessels
Hi, topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what filesystem you want to use for your root during installation? Thanks, ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list O