On Wed, September 16, 2009 09:29, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > The installer used in Solaris 2.0 through the original release of 10 > required > UFS as the root filesystem - that wasn't a design bug, just the way it was > designed.
If there are multiple filesystems available, an installer that forces root to be one specific one of them is suboptimal. "Design bug" is a bit too absolute; sometimes it's quite hard, sometimes the number of people who might reasonably want anything but one of the choices is very small, etc. In the current case, the use of snapshots to handle keeping boot environments straight is just so elegant, it makes some sense to me to have an installation approach that requires it. If future filesystems also support snapshots, then it'll start to look more like a bug again if the installer forces you to use one specific one. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
