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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:41:32PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > Certainly, many of us will be satisfied with all-in-one pool,
> > just as we are today with all all-in-one filesystem, so this
> > makes sense as a first step. But, there needs to be the
> > presumption that the next steps towards multiple pool support
> > are possible without having to re-architect or re-design the
> > whole zfs boot system.
>
> I'm curious as to why you think this (note: I've nothing to do with ZFS
> development). I understand the need for separate / and /usr in some
> cases, but how does separate / and /usr add value in a ZFS bootroot
> environment? Is it because one might like to have a very tiny pool
> (e.g., on a USB flashdrive) to contain / and a larger one to contain
> /usr?
>
> Thinking of ZFS crypto, it might, since one might put / in cleartext on
> a small capacity USB flashdrive, say and keep everything else encrypted.
> But one should want ZFS crypto to protect / as well as everything else
> (/usr and homedirs), and I would hope that when ZFS crypto gets around
> to meeting ZFS bootroot then we'll able to do just that.
I wonder how much this would change if a functional "pivot-root"
mechanism were available. It be handy nice to boot from flash, import a
pool, then make that the running root.
Does anyone know if that's a target of any OpenSolaris projects?
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Darren Dunham ddunham@xxxxxxxx
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