> - "zoneadm install" turns into much the same as > lucreate, except that > rather than being a global zone environment, it > becomes a non-global > zone environment. "zoneadm clone" already does > (almost) this if the > source zonepath is the root of a zfs file system. > - flarcreate and friends could be improved to include > data streams > output from }zfs send". Incremental flash archives > become fast to > create because you can just send the diffs to the > incremental flar. > - Zones could then be created from flash archives > that are designed to > be global or non-global zones. Think of this like > vmware appliance > images.
If the zone stuff will take as much work as I think, I'd leave it off the first release feature list entirely. The Linux zone isn't really interesting because it doesn't support the 2.6 kernel, and regular zones are an advanced feature that will appeal to a tiny portion of the user base. Indiana will be used by curious new single users who want to check out ZFS for their file server, or try out the new Netbeans or SunStudio, or compare it to their current OS. So you want to have the OS up to the status quo (installer, boot speed, application selection, patching) more than you want zones working. Anyone is free to work on this stuff of course, but I'd leave zones off the top priority list until more commonly used features are done. Once that happens, I'd make a fuss about zones only when there is a compelling reason for normal folks to use them, and a GUI to help them do it. A possible example: putting a file server in one zone, a MythTV-like PVR in another zone, and a developer workstation in a final zone. > The bar is so low because patching will likely never be a task that people > look forward to. "Patching" in Ubuntu with apt is actually kind of fun because it works so well :) It's like going to the doctor and getting a lollypop. Removing stuff isn't so great, however. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
