Lionel Cons wrote:
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).
That's a pity because my observations are that it is often much
easier to bring up a port of an operating system on a new platform
using NFS root than it is using disk. Not to mention safer.
Darren
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