Carson Gaspar wrote:
Richard Elling wrote:
Miles Nordin wrote:
AIUI the later BE's are clones of the first, and not all blocks
will be rewritten, so it's still an issue. no?
In practice, yes, they are clones. But whether it is an issue
depends on what the "issue" is. As I see it, the issue is that
someone wants to make install more complex, and thus lose the gains
Caiman brought to the product. So, I'll stand by my comment, you can
change policies later. -- richard
No, the "issue" is wanting a compress root FS. So if you can't set it
for the first OS BE, and other BEs are clones, then it's still an issue.
Useful tools in the real world are complex. Sorry, but that's reality.
You can have a stupid and easy mode, you can even have it be the
default, but if it's the only mode you've made the product useless for
serious work.
I'll call bull* on that. Microsoft has an admirably simple installation
and 88% of the market. Apple has another admirably simple installation
and 10% of the market. Solaris has less than 1% of the market and has
had a very complex installation process. You can't win that battle by
increasing complexity.
It is relatively simple to make this happen without changing the interactive
installer at all:
http://blogs.sun.com/glagasse/entry/howto_enable_zfs_compression_when
But for most sites who will be doing large scale installations at sites,
they will not be using interactive installers.
-- richard
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