On 07/24/14 02:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Thank you for your opinions.  I didn't think anyone ran configurations like you 
describe, but now I know someone does.

My feeling is that your use case is still rather niche at least within this 
community.  As such I won't tell you what
Sure thing it is about distribution work. And thank you for hearing me out.

I see myself communicating to wildness of Admins from other systems in their initial contact with illumos distros. If I try to convert user to use illumos distro, I don't expect it to dedicate hardware right away just to indulge me (that is also what live media is all about), but I expect him to expect from distro that he/she can use new system on existing hardware, without disturbing current installation and including use of illumos-based virtualization.. and that's what dual boot is all about. Poor man server for testing of deployments and as demonstrator without killing present install.

Sure thing, once explained that it is better for ZFS to use whole disk(s), newcomer would at least use separate device for illumos distro, but that also includes dual-boot option in Grub. If they are direct customers, surely they will prepare dedicated hardware but there are places in between that new users would like to have. Sorry for writing too much again :) , but hey, we are here to understand each other. Thanks.


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