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

[Alexander Eremin]

On Feb 27, 2011, at 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.

Not only Nexenta, I hope to see the different distributions based on  
illumos, which do not use IPS
and such changes should help them.

>
> 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
>
Agree, this sounds reasonable.
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Thanks,
Alexander