Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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 allow it to get out of date and even worse allow a system to stop very 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.
As per Jan (Jan.Setje-Eilers at Sun.COM), this is going to be the long term approach (at least for now). Jan, Could you comment on this? > > 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 Thanks, Gangadhar
