I haven't contributed to open solaris at all, so I really have no say-so in this discussion, but personally, I think this is a non-issue. People that choose to use open solaris should do so with the mindset that open solaris is not linux or any other operating system except a variant of solaris. Either way you go, somebody will be unhappy with the decision be it a solaris professional or a linux professional. Doing so is adding complication that isn't really going to help decrease the learning curve by any means worth considering, cause like I said, a solaris guy is probably going to expect it be done X way and a linux guy will probably expect it to be done Y way and the rest of us will just familiarize ourselves with whatever method is chosen and move on with our lives.
J.P. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:indiana-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Walker > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:43 AM > To: Jason J. W. Williams > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; clearview- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] simplified network interface names > forindiana? > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Jason J. W. Williams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems to me Linux folks would prefer ethX naming, and Solaris folks > > don't have a problem with the current naming (although trying to > > remember that nge and nxge are not even remotely related is kind of > > archaic). In that respect, it would almost seem worthwhile to have an > > option on a clean Indiana install: > > > > + Network Device Naming + > > (*) Linux Style (default) > > ( ) Solaris Style > > > > I guess my opinion on netX is a different from a couple of days ago > > when it seemed like a good idea. Now it just seems like it would > > confuse both camps and not make anybody happy. > > > > Heck, we're using Clearview already to name NICs after the VLAN > > shortname we use internally. So it doesn't really matter for our > > environment if its netX. > > I think wherever possible we should avoid options like this during > installation. > > I would rather pick "the best overall solution" that leaves some folks > unhappy than complicate our installer. > > However, it might be interesting to have a tool post-install that let > you "rename" all the interfaces based on a policy. > > -- > Shawn Walker > > "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - > Robert Orben > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
