On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > Leaving aside the question of device nodes, the simple answer is > "compatibility." We couldn't change the default mount options without > substantially and subtly damaging our compatibility story. Upgrade > should not cause the system to break existing applications without > substantial justification, warning, and a transition plan in place. > > "Sun doesn't do that."
This is one thing I really like about JASS. There are things that make sense for many people before Sun decides that it is the right thing to do. For example, Finish/set-root-home-dir.fin has a timestamp of 2005. It hasn't been until 2008 that this bold step has made it into the development branch of Solaris. By all indications will be at least 2010 before it makes it into a supported release of Solaris. I bet that the type of folks that run JASS would be willing to be guinea pigs for this step forward now so that maybe in five years it can have a strong enough track record to become the default. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
