Peter Tribble wrote: > 10.1 Must be *much* faster than LiveCD. Must be significantly faster than > current jumpstart too. Need to set some realistic targets. We know how long it > should take - 5 minutes would be a reasonable target. >
That's laying down ~2.2 GB of software... doable, but a 100Mb LAN is marginal and if you allocate any more than a minute to boot you won't make it. > 10.2 Need to be much more aggressive here. I don't see any reason why 256M > shouldn't be the target. I might accept 384. The bulk of available systems out > there are still 512M. Sun are still selling 512M machines. And you need to > allow > some room for graphics stealing and headroom. And then there's virtualization, > so you want the footprint as low as possible to cram as many VMs onto a server > as you can. > It's not clear that focusing on ultra low memory systems is worthwhile here; VM's seem much easier to provision in other ways such as a prebuilt disk image, or creating a custom disk image as desired. VMs tend to be cookie cutter; there's little need to select a profile based on attributes of the VM's hardware.... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
