>On 11/11/06, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It would seem useful to separate the user's data from the system's data >> to prevent problems with losing mail, log file data, etc, when either >> changing boot environments or pivoting root boot environments. > >I'll be more concerned about the confusion caused by losing the >changes when booting off different datasets but that problem exists >ZFS or otherwise. I see a clear advantage in keeping more bootable >images than I can have "partitions" for especially when monkeying >around with the kernel codes.
And I think this may also open the door for a "fallback" boot; if booting one root fs fails, we might be able to restart with another (but this does seem to require modifying the pool in some way so it is not obvious how this is done with errors really early in boot) Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
