On 10 September 2013 19:23, Keith Wesolowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 06:42:42PM +0200, Lionel Cons wrote:
>
> [moving to discuss, since this is not relevant]

I'd disagree since the project has long term implications for the
developers, but oh well...

>> - Booting from NFSv4 is extremely painful, you're always forced to use
>> a miniroot (this wasn't a problem with Solaris < 10). And the miniroot
>> concept comes with major logistical obstacles
>
> You have the source code, right?

Yes, but there are little people left who understand NFS boot in
Solaris/Illumos. And personally I got the feeling that any practical
way to boot Illumos using a NFS root has been removed long ago.
Resurrecting it is very hard (at least for me).

Lionel


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