> > My proposal does not affect LU in any way, as the > user would still have the option to slice up the disk > at will, just as one does now. > > By that same token, you've got the option of slicing > things up the way > you want already, so you can already set up one big > root slice and be > done with it. No removal of the '/export/home' entry > in the usual > install mechanism is needed.
Removal of /export/home as a separate slice is very much needed, simply because that particular layout uses disk space very inefficiently: for example, under that particular layout, AND under "discrete filesystems" layout in general, there will be filesystems which are barely used, while other filesystems will be full. Determining the correct layout is empirically impossible and over the years has resulted in arcane *gut feel* sizes of filesystems. Simply put, the default disk layout as it is today does not use the available disk space optimally nor efficiently. > Given the difficulty in setting it up later > (essentially "can't" for > many systems), I think LU ought to come > pre-configured out of the box. LU is wonderful and everything, but it has one major drawback, and that is seriously wasting disk space. In order to use LU, one must allocate disk slices which may or may not be used for an upgrade. And personally, although I find the concept of LU wondeful and can use it, I will stay away from it because it is too complicated and return on investment is too small, while the investment (time, complexity, disk space) is too great. In my experience, it is much cheaper (time and resource-wise) to treat the OS as an off the shelf commodity part by creating a compressed Flash(TM) archive. Much faster to deploy and consistent across every system. LU is not relevant to this particular issue because the current default layout doesn't accomodate for it anyways. Let us please leave LU out of this particular discussion and concentrate on the default / inadequate disk layout. Back to my question: should I simply file an RFE? This message posted from opensolaris.org
