> On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote: >> On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] >>> Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ? >>> >> >> YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down >> to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an >> emergency disk or install disk to fix broken passwd files. > > You want zfs root: take a snapshot before you do anything potentially > dangerous. > > $ zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > tank 2.78G 16.0G 9K /tank > tank/rootfs 2.78G 16.0G 2.77G legacy > tank/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.29M - 2.77G - > > $ df -h / > Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on > tank/rootfs 19G 2.8G 16G 15% / > Gavin, I really LOVE new thinking. Really. I do.
Do you realize what this could mean ? It could mean that separate filesystems could be abolished. At least once upon a time, way way back in the Solaris 2.5.1 days I would regularly create a separate / and /var and /usr and certainly a separate /opt on any server or workstation. These days I have made to switch to "big fat root" with /opt still separate. Perhaps ZFS will allow me to toss _everything_ into a ZFS hierarchy. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
