>>>> That jives with my thoughts too.
>>>>> This seems to meet most, if not all, of the Requirements and might
>>>>> limit the necessary changes in the applications a bit.
>>>> Can you elaborate ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If the stream is just a package that gets laid down, there's very
>>> little additional work required in the installers - we already know
>>> how to install packages. The only thing that would seem to be
>>> necessary to add to the installer then is to de-encapsulate the
>>> installed image from the stream package.
>> All true, except that the pool needs to be created before the image can
>> be laid down and hence I was planning on the image providing hints
>> about storage layout.
>>
>
> That seems fine, especially if the hints were in the form of an AI
> manifest (fragment?) ;-)

That's a good idea. At least for AI. What if we want to support 
installation of replication archives via some other installer?

sarah
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