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

[Garrett D'Amore]

  On 02/28/11 08:54 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 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?

Because NexentaStor has a different convention that is deeply embedded 
into our code -- these conventions were created *long* before IPS or 
even beadm existed.

This change was viewed as the smaller change, and possibly useful to 
other distros.

     - Garrett