Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Rennie Allen
+1 what Jay says. Also, I don't think that dropping to mdb is all that painful. It is one of the best debuggers around. On 6/26/12 4:09 PM, "Jay Heyl" wrote: >On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Vishwas Durai >wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I'm wondering what options are available for root filesyste

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Jay Heyl
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Vishwas Durai wrote: > Hello all, > I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By > default, install uses ZFS and creates a rpool. But If I'm a ZFS hacker > and made some changes to some core structures, how does one go about > debugging

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-26 4:55, Vishwas Durai пишет: Hello all, I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By default, install uses ZFS and creates a rpool. But If I'm a ZFS hacker and made some changes to some core structures, how does one go about debugging that? Is dropping to kmdb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Gordon Ross
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Lowe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: >> UFS root should still work, also NFS root (convenient for ZFS debug work:) >> > > As concepts within illumos, yes. > > With the full OI distribution, doubtful. > > -- Rich Last I looke

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Richard Lowe
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: > UFS root should still work, also NFS root (convenient for ZFS debug work:) > As concepts within illumos, yes. With the full OI distribution, doubtful. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Richard Elling
UFS root certainly works, but not sure if the OI installer makes it easy? -- richard On Jun 25, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: > UFS root should still work, also NFS root (convenient for ZFS debug work:) > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:55

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Gordon Ross
UFS root should still work, also NFS root (convenient for ZFS debug work:) On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Vishwas Durai wrote: >> I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By >> default,  install  uses ZFS and creates

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Vishwas Durai wrote: > I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By > default,  install  uses ZFS and creates a rpool. I was about to say, "use UFS", but I found this: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2011-June/004488.