Quoth Nils Goroll on Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0800: > I would like to suggest a project to get the infrastructure to publish my code > and to allow others to work with it. > > - A short (one or a few words) synopsis of the Project's purpose, > 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
Either is fine by me. > - A list of Community Groups sponsoring the Project. > > would SMF sponsor this? I think we should. You might also seek sponsorship from the storage community. > - A list of Participants constituting the initial Project Team, > including a single individual who will serve as the preferred > point of contact for matters regarding the Project. > > me (nigoroll) > looking for others > > - A one-paragraph description of the Project, for an audience of > Participants who may not be familiar with the area in which work > is proposed. This should contain a brief description of the > 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. Are you also planning on allowing administrators to make service instances depend on filesystem mounts? > - A listing of related ongoing or proposed Projects, including > 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. You should also say that you're targeting the O/N consolidation. David
