> [b]Downloading and Burning OpenSolaris. > [/b] > I decided to experience the above, using build 49. > The DVD image is 249.75 MB bigger than the CD > counterpart. There is [b]no [/b]explaination what > consumes this extra space.
This is just a guess, I haven't checked, but: Back in Solaris 8 timeframe, CD1 contained a bootable (UFS) filesystem in slice 0, and a copy of that data in an ISO filesystem on slice 1. When it became too difficult to shoehorn that all in, the extra copy on slice 1 was dropped and became a symlink. Because UFS is not mountable cross-platform, this makes creation of a jumpstart server on an alternate architecture more difficult than necessary. Meanwhile with the extra space, the DVD has retained the separate copy of the data. I haven't looked at a recent DVD, but perhaps that's at least part of the difference? -- Darren This message posted from opensolaris.org
