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

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On 02/27/11 23:58, Alexander Eremin wrote:
>> 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.

What does IPS have to do with the use of <pool>/ROOT to contain root 
filesystems?  the exact same convention was used with live upgrade and 
SVR4 packages!

Why not just change nexenta to put its BE's into <pool>/ROOT?