Greetings, I'd really like to see linux like chroot where lib dependencies can still be handled after shell's chrooted. Very useful for debugging a dead system IMO.
On 12/3/07, Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your suggestions. Can you please provide a usage > scenario for lsof and top and pax when one is running safe mode boot ? > Since Indiana has zfs as root, there will be full support for ZFS. Ok I agree usage of top would be nearly as good as usage of already included psrinfo (minus the memory summary). Pax is useful since tar in safe mode doesn't seem to like tar files created with the -E flag (large files). I should have said gnu tar or perhaps set of tools similar to Busybox - http://www.busybox.net/about.html > Importing SVM volumes would be a bit tricky since one would need a local > metadb to start with. There is a manual workaround to this. Imagine a situation where you'd want to restore a corrupt /var mirror from ufsdump image. You'd have to mount each SVM submirror slice & ufsrestore to both sides individually, issue here is you can not predict which way the mirror's gonna sync exactly if you boot from the SVM mirror MD. (discussed a bit over @ http://unixfreaks.net/?p=113 ). Similar issue arrises from fsck on submirrors (soft partitions even more tricky). By the way is bash in & can NFS or SSH server be started from rescue boot? Lastly will there ever be a proper way to skip autoconfiguring all the NICs at boot? This becomes a rather long (and useless) wait on systems with lots of network interfaces. I can't think of much else right now ;) -- _________________________________/ sengork.blogspot.com /????
