On Dec 13, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Richard Elling
<richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote:
Do I understand correctly if I read this as: OpenSolaris is able to
switch between systems without reinstalling? Just a zfs import -f
and
everything runs? Wow, that would be an improvemment and would make
things more like *BSD/linux.
Solaris has been able to do that for 20+ years. Why do you think
it should be broken now?
Only for "sufficiently similar" systems. There's historically been an
awful lot of detailed system configuration baked into an installed
image. Yes, you can get rid of it, but the idea that you could pull
drives from a failed system and put them into any old system they
might happen to fit in and expect it to just work has always been
optimistic. The advantage of zfs is that it abstracts a lot of that
away.
I'll disagree and have successful projects that prove it. However,
this is way off topic. I think we can all agree that forgetting how to
type "vi /etc/vfstab" is a win-win for everyone :-)
-- richard
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