Michael Schuster wrote:
> On 03/25/09 11:13, Zhenghui.Xie at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>>> this is in direct contradiction to what we have now: as the spec has 
>>> it, you need to *explicitly* remove all configuration if you want to 
>>> start afresh.
>>>
>>
>> I didn't get it. Why is it contradiction? Are you saying we need to 
>> provide some command to clean the configuration, before user does an 
>> import?
>
> ... if they want to *replace* existing configuration, not just add to 
> it, they need to remove all existing config; we already have commands 
> in place for that (ilbadm destroy-X).
>

And we are asking user to do too much work to replace some configuration 
(four commands at least) and I don't think it is right. Why not simply 
replace the existing configuration with the imported one? I think it is 
what import implies anyway. And what does an incremental import buy us?

-Jan

-Jan
> Michael


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