Kyle McDonald wrote: > Bart Smaalders wrote: > >> Benjamin Brumaire wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I experienced the new installation process while setting a new >>> system. >>> It feels very easy to install Solaris Express Community Edition b87 and >>> I think it 's a good thing to simplify the process. But making thing >>> easier shouldn't make the process inflexible. In Unix-style there should >>> be room for modification. Especialy disk layout. Maybe I missed >>> something but I wasn't able to find a way to modify the default layout. >>> In that case I think the simplification process of installing >>> opensolaris went too far. >>> >>> >>> >> Is the problem that you wish to repartition the disk? Note that ZFS doesn't >> use fixed boundaries for filesystems, so space allocation should not be >> an issue >> inside the disk/partition chosen for OpenSolaris. >> >> >> > Even with ZFS, the installer should let you define which sub trees (/, > /usr, /var) are separate ZFS filesystems, and set fixed sizes (Quotas? > Reservations?) on them. > Perhaps in the long run, but we have had issues with the separate datasets for /var and decided to not allow for that right now.
The quotas and reservations can be set after the install. sarah ***** > -Kyle > > >> - Bart >> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >
