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

[Alexander Stetsenko]

  On 02/27/11 10:50 PM, Richard Lowe wrote:
> 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.
I`m agree, but issue filled for illumos
> 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.
I`m not sure, If it is boolean libbe will detect which pool is rpool 
automatically from active be,
otherwise it may contain invalid value, that not corresponds to active be.
> (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).
Yes, it will forbid
> -- Rich