> Other than simply disagreeing, can you provide some
> reasons why this 
> layout would unacceptable to users?

I have already done so, did you not read what I wrote?

That layout does not consider OpenSolaris target audience at all. Your target 
audience knows nothing of LU, and they're stomped with the concept of slices 
inside of a BIOS partition.

And: that layout wastes 15GB of space for something that in most cases will 
never be used!

LU is for sysadmins, not end users. In case it slipped "through the cracks", 
most people are afraid of the CLI and have difficulty using it. And even if 
there was a GUI, the concept of LU is so "off the wall", your end users would 
be stomped anyway.

Finally, any good sysadmin will know about LU, and will know how to slice up 
the disk in just about any way imaginable. That audience definitely does not 
need presliced and preinstalled systems, becase they will know what they want 
and "one size fits all" factory layout certainly won't work!

In other words: it's a perfect example of vendor believing that he knows what 
his customers want, and at the same time not listening to his customers.
 
 
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