Ellis, Mike wrote:
How about a generic "zfs options" field in the JumpStart profile?
(essentially an area where options can be specified that are all applied
to the boot-pool (with provisions to deal with a broken-out-var))
We had this discussion a while back and, IIRC, it was expected that
AI would offer this capability (I haven't verified.) But as far as the
interactive install, the goal was to ask fewer questions, not more.
The existing and previous Solaris installers were considered far too
complicated for people and the competition is fierce with all of the
popular interactive installers much more simplified. I agree that
interactive installation needs to remain as simple as possible.
Note: in the Caiman world, this is only an issue for the first BE.
Later BEs can easily have other policies.
-- richard
That should future proof things to some extent allowing for
compression=x, copies=x, blocksize=x, zfsPool-version=x,
checksum=sha256, future-dedup, future-crypto, and other such goodies.
(by just passing the keywords and having ZFS deal with it on the other
end, the jumpstart code can remain quite static, while the zfs-side
gradually introduces the new features.
Just a thought,
-- MikeE
PS: At one point the old JumpStart code was encumbered, and the
community wasn't able to assist. I haven't looked at the next-gen
jumpstart framework that was delivered as part of the OpenSolaris SPARC
preview. Can anyone provide any background/doc-link on that new
JumpStart framework?
-----Original Message-----
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org
[mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Torrey McMahon
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:38 PM
To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE
Before I put one in ... anyone else seen one? Seems we support
compression on the root pool but there is no way to enable it at install
time outside of a custom script you run before the installer. I'm
thinking it should be a real install time option, have a jumpstart
keyword, etc. Same with copies=2
Thanks.
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