On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:06:59 PST Uwe Dippel <udippel at gmail.com> wrote:
> [This is related to another thread, but to me, in 'Help' for 'discussing > difficulties in getting, building and installing OpenSolaris' seems a > veritable contender of its own] > > It was a revelation some 10 years ago to me, that it could be done in Linux: > Reinstall the OS from scratch and not touch /home. Even though the Solaris > tradition is not necessarily the stand-alone desktop, we are moving there. Is there a current Linux distro that actually configures itself so this can happen? Most of the ones I've seen don't bother. > Can it be done as easily as it ought to be, to make it an extra sales > argument? The whole 'restore' is - as far as I can make out - somewhat > missing in (Open)Solaris. Again, I don't intend to get hints to > Flash-archives or backup here. Rather a restore of an underlying OS, same > version, on the very same machine, without touching /export. On ZFS. > > Can it be done? In theory, yes. The ON distributions I've looked at even configure things properly for that (one of the joys of ZFS). Whether any of the current installation scripts are smart enough to let you do so is another question. But give them time; zfs-only installations are only a matter of months old yet. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
