Keith Bierman wrote: > On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Dave Miner wrote: > >> I doubt we'd have interest in providing more configurability in the >> interactive installer. As Richard sort of points out subsequently, >> most >> people wouldn't know what to do here, anyway, and the ones who do >> usually use automated provisioning like Jumpstart, where we can >> provide >> those options. > > > A lot of developers use VMs of one sort or another these days, and > few of them use jumpstart (especially when the entire point of the > exercise is to get their feet wet on new platforms, or new versions > of old platforms). > > Perhaps I travel in the wrong circles these days. >
All they'd have to do under my suggested solutoin is make the virtual disk large enough to get a dump pool created automatically. Our recommended sizing would encompass that. I do like Bill's suggestion of getting VM's to snapshot the VM on panic, though. Dave _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss