On 08/11/14 05:19 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
The use case for wanboot is for systems that need to be installed
where they are deployed in network closets, without any local human
hands, AND with no local support servers. This is an exceedingly
rare configuration.
Thanks for your answers, that is usually what wider audience needs to
understand, suited human-readable form.
It crossed my mind that exact possibility , to have collocated servers
that boots itself over the internet and installs and then calls home for
additional setup.
Also small NAS implementations (possibly to boom in number with IPv6)
with only https option for easy recovering in the wild, with
inexperienced customers.
Note, if you've ever used wanboot, then I'll give your opinion a
little more weight. Since its clear that you haven't, and since I
know you're not an active developer for illumos (meaning you're not in
a position to help the sustaining effort, or possibly even to judge
the cost of sustaining), your opinion in this regard doesn't carry a
lot of weight.
Would certainly not be able to use wanboot anymore, obviously ;P
Removing more advanced things and leaving less options, have peculiar
sound in it, so I had to ask, especially for AI installs that would
conitue to work.
(Sorry for asking!..)
Questions are formed more as observatory and sharing ideas then steering
opinions.I know you have need to underline that not all people are
created equal, but I have right to my opinions.
I think you could judge the cost of visibility - as a repository of
removed options (versus list of newly added ones) , without effort of
actually making it sustainable, just more visible. Don't know if a wiki
page is enough but probably it would have to be.
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