I really think this case is solving the wrong problem. The problem is that we depend on the boot archive at all and that we allow it to get out of date and even worse allow a system to stop very early in boot because of that.
I would much rather see we solve the root cause and rethink the whole boot-archive issues - particularly in light of the fact that GRUB and OBP can actually read ZFS. For network boot the boot-archive approach is still desirable but the boot server can deal with the archive updates in that case. However I see that this case is providing value as is so even given the above I'm happy with the proposal and the release binding including the intent to backport to S10. -- Darren J Moffat
