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

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On 02/28/11 09:12, Alexander Eremin wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I don't like hardcoded names. After years you'll need to find and modify
> it in various places..

can you at least fix the bug synopsis to be correct?  this has nothing 
whatsoever to do with IPS!

how about "beadm should allow BEs outside of <pool>/ROOT" ?

does any other distro use a different naming convention for root 
filesystems?

						- Bill