I would like to suggest a project to get the infrastructure to publish my code
and to allow others to work with it.
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and an optional shortened or decorative name (see 4.1).
Suggested Project name (with a bit of self-irony): Everest
Suggested Project name for those who don't like this kind of
humor: smf-mount
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would SMF sponsor this?
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including a single individual who will serve as the preferred
point of contact for matters regarding the Project.
me (nigoroll)
looking for others
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problem(s) the Project is expected to solve, and of the manner in
which it will do so.
In Solaris, there exists not generic method to mount filesystems which
depend upon each other but are of different FSTypes like NFS, ZFS, UFS
or lofs. The classic is that a lofs mount of an NFS mount or even an
UFS mount fails (in some cases), if simply being added to the vfstab.
The projects aims to provide a framework and (a) tool(s) (suggested
name: mountadm) to allow for arbitrary mountpoints to be configured
to be automatically mounted (including filesystem-check) and unmounted
in the right order, which is determined by technical dependecies between them.
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information about any dependencies on or by this Project and any
duplication of purpose or overlap with other ongoing work. This
listing should also include the name of the consolidation the
Project Team is targeting, if applicable.
ZFS, which does not normally integrate into a general mount/umount
concept.
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prospective Project Team members and/or consumers of the Project's
output.
Though there exist other ways to achieve the goal of automatic
mount/umount of dependent filesystems, none of them is general.
Either, they only work for a limited subset of the possible cases
(like lofs depending upon UFS), or they are specific to one file-
system (true for all "local" filesystems and in particular for ZFS).
Tough a general method could be implemented on its own,
the SMF framework already provides all necessary facilities to achieve
the goal. As SMF is an integral (and important) part of Solaris,
which is well documented and well maintained, I suggest to
use it as the basis of a general mount/umount framework.
This framework can co-exist with the classic vfstab and
specialised solutions like the ZFS automount or the (NFS/
removable media) automounter.
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