Uwe Dippel
2008-Nov-07 05:09 UTC
[zfs-discuss] [osol-help] How to install to OpenSolaris on ZFS and leaving /export untouched?
[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