On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 02:01:29PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:54:21PM +0000, A Darren Dunham wrote: > > I wonder how much this would change if a functional "pivot-root" > > mechanism were available. It be handy nice to boot from flash, import a > > pool, then make that the running root. > > > > Does anyone know if that's a target of any OpenSolaris projects? > > That's pretty much what the ZFS mountroot effort was about, and it has > been replaced with ZFS bootroot instead. But I suspect you mean > something more general than a ZFS root scenario, something more > Linux-like (where even user-land processes can run prior to switching to > the real root and starting init).
Perhaps. My thoughts were really wondering about something more general than ZFS, rather than any ZFS-specific solutions. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
