On 11/19/10 01:52 PM, Dave Miner wrote: ...
Having /opt on a separate dataset can work, as we have systems that were originally installed that way under 2008.05 when we did create that separate dataset, and they continue to be upgradeable today (I'm writing this on one of them that's running 151a). However, there's probably some subtlety of the dataset properties that isn't set up in those who've done it by hand. We don't consider this a supported configuration at present because we're not formally testing against it, but as we work to improve the dataset layout for S11 I'm sure we'll revisit.
There are numerous cases where the package system can and will break if you have separate datasets for places packages are installed.
As a result, I would strongly discourage against any setup that involves packages being split across multiple filesystems instead of a single '/' filesystem.
You may find yourself lucky much of the time simply because packages on those other filesystems may not change during an upgrade, but as soon as one of them does, you'll likely find the results are not as you expect.
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