>On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:50 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: >> Mike Dotson wrote: >> > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:29 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: >> >> > Would help in many cases where an admin needs to work on a system but >> > doesn't need, say 20k users home directories mounted, to do this work. >> > >> So single-user mode is not sufficient for this? >> > >Not all work needs to be done in single user:) And I wouldn't consider a >4+ hour boot time just for mounting file systems a good use of cpu time >when an admin could be doing other things - preparation for next >patching, configuring changes to webserver, etc. Or just monitoring the >status of the file system mounts to give an update to management on how >many file systems are mounted and how many are left. > >Point is, why is console-login dependent on *all* the file systems being >mounted in *multiboot*. Does it really need to depend on *all* the file >systems being mounted?
Why do we need the filesystems mounted at all, ever, if they are not used? Mounts could be more magic than that. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
