Quoth Ethan Quach on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:07:12AM -0700: > David Bustos wrote: > > - Will the customizations need to be upgradable? In other words, if > > the user specified a file which customized property P to value > > C during the install, do we need to allow him to specify a new file > > which specifes no customization for P so that we revert P to the > > default value? > > Are you referring to upgrades from media, like what we do in Nevada > today, then we plop down some file for smf to consume upon the first > boot after the upgrade?
No. I'm trying to figure out whether we need to track these AI customizations separately from post-install customizations. The main difference is if the user wants to undo or change the customizations independently in the future. In particular, I'm planning on tracking generic.xml and platform.xml separately so they can be upgraded independently of user customizations. We can determine this later, though. For now we can go with the simpler option, which is to not track them separately. > Question for you. Is this file location going to be specially contracted > between the installer and smf, or is it something generically usable > on any bootup? (no, I haven't looked at the gate or the README yet.) The plan is for it to be private right now. In the future we might open up a more public interface. > > - Can we guarantee that the root filesystem will be writable at boot, > > or do you support UFS roots? > > The installer supports only zfs. Does that answer your question? Yes. > > - AI is supported on SPARC, correct? > > Yes. Ok. I'll have to test the SPARC build, then. > >You can view the current code at > >http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/smf-profiles/gate/ . The README > >has instructions for building and installing it into a zone. > > I will try this out when I get a chance. Probably not for a couple > of weeks though. Ok, thanks. David
