[illumos-Developer] WEBREV 719 beadm should support non-IPS BEs

[Richard Lowe]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:45, Alexander Stetsenko <ams at nexenta.com> wrote:
> For example the NCP BE name is like syspool/rootfs-nmu-...
> default parameters should be:
> RPOOL_CONTAINER=1
> BENAME_STARTS_WITH=rootfs-nmu

At a glance, this sounds like something much more useful in a Nexenta
patch than the main tree.

If there's a general need to have rootfs datasets outside <pool>/ROOT/
it seems like RPOOL_CONTAINER, rather than boolean, should indicate a
pool-relative dataset
the children of which are candidate rootfses.
(thus: in the NCP case, '/', the implicit default "ROOT", etc.)

I'd expect that if BENAME_STARTS_WITH is set that beadm would forbid
creation of
BEs which don't match it (as they won't be seen as BEs after creation).

-- Rich