> On Jan 18, 2018, at 11:45 PM, Jim Wiggs <[email protected]> wrote: > > But I'm still left with one question: why on Earth is *parted* not included > as part of the SmartOS hypervisor image? The old Solaris format command is > spectacularly user-unfriendly and always has been. I can't imagine that > parted requires so much additional space that it couldn't be included. Was > there any particular rationale to not put a better and more user-friendly > partitioning tool into the OS that runs at the top level and manages the > hardware?
The platform image has less than 10MB of space available. Every time it grows, the boot time for PXE boot takes longer. While you *can* partition up disks to create your own pool configuration, the intended use case on SmartOS is to let disklayout do that job. It's exceedingly rare that someone needs something outside of what disklayout provides, and even for those, SmartOS would be better served to add a feature to disklayout rather than to add yet another utility. -- Brian Bennett Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com <http://www.joyent.com/>
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