Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:11:57AM -0700, lianep at eng.sun.com wrote: >> Zones design, I think, sticks us with a problem of having to split >> packages. (Or, put another way, the packaging tools do -- split root >> and usr packages are an artifact of package/install implementation, not >> necessarily the way things needed to be done.) > > I think it has to do with: a) the historical / vs. /usr split and b) > diskless clients, where /usr is shared read-only by all clients and / is > per-client -- install and patching, which rely on the package system, > have to support this. > > We should eventually be able to dump this horrid split and rationalize > package numbers and names, now that we have snapshot and cloning in ZFS. > Emphasis on eventually.
There is some sunkworks stuff going on in Sun UK for some Sun internal projects to make thousands of diskless clients based on ZFS clones and snapshots. -- Darren J Moffat
