> > Here is a real life example of the inconvenience > > without a generic > > root device name. In a sparc farm, a script is > > written for jumpstart > > 100 systems. It needs 100 copies of the jumpstart > > scripts because > > each system has it own WWN for the root device. > > However, only one copy > > is needed if root device has a generic name. > > Did you know that by doing the /dev/root and > /dev/rroot thing, you'll be copying SGI IRIX 6.5 > verbatim?
I do not think anyone mentioned /dev/root yet. If that is what IRIX6.5 was doing, there is no copy issue here. > > So if you're going to be going that route, can we > just have the rest of the IRIX 6.5 brought over into > Solaris as well? Inetersting thought. It is probably worth a new thread, though. > > I still want `inst`, `swmgr` and `swpkg` from IRIX on > Solaris... > > > A biref here is that Devname is implementing a > > filesystem > > for the /dev namespace. It supports mounting a > subset > > of > > the /dev namespace to a chroot'ed environment. The > > FTP > > device namespace can be such a instance. > > May I suggest that you use SGI IRIX for solving this > one? Surely you guys at Sun have some IRIX systems? > > SGI solved this about 15 years ago with /dev and /hw. > Please take a look at it and relieve yourself of a > lot of grief. I do not expect to find the Zones support in SGI IRIX system. Ftpconfig in the local zone is the problem we are trying to solve. lucy This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
