Evan,
I am interested in "pivotroot" like technology for Solaris. Our usage scenario is to boot a diskless sparc box, load some modules and then switch the root filesystem to storage provided by those drivers. As anyone ever contemplated something like this before?
No I have not, but an idea we have been talking about for a while, is to use the Sun StorageTek Availability Suite product, specifically II and its ability to create multiple shadow volumes of a single master.
After one copies their favorite OpenSolaris distribution to their disk-less boot server, this becomes the II master volume. The for each disk-less client, one creates a new compact dependent shadow volume. As each client boots, they share the read-only portion of the II master volume, but for each write (the per-client unique data), II's COW (copy-on-write) technology places this data in the compact shadow volume.
Jim
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