[i]Is there a current Linux distro that actually configures itself so this can happen? Most of the ones I've seen don't bother.[/i]
Mike, does 'Debian' or 'Ubuntu' ring a bell? Both cater for this situation in the text based installer. And surely a few more, that I only haven't tried. I *am* disappointed, this is so obvious to do. And is so obvious a feature needed and useful. [At times I really question the vision of higher management in SUN. Having great engineers doing the groundwork often is not enough for business survival.] [i]Whether any of the current installation scripts are smart enough to let you do so is another question.[/i] What do you mean with 'smart'? I would be even more disheartened if ZFS could only either distroy and recreate a whole pool. Does ZFS not allow to simply dump files to all but a single location, rpool/export? Take heed, I don't talk about *creating* a pool and leaving parts of an old one untouched. I only talk about adding two hooks to the installer script: One that allows the user to keep the existing filesystem/pool for the new installation (and skip the creation), and one that skips the eventual writing of data into /export/home. Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
