Hi Alexander,
I'm not sure about the OpenSolaris release specifically, but for the
SXCE and Solaris 10 releases, we provide this requirement:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/zfsboot-1?a=view
* Solaris OS Components – All subdirectories of the root file system
that are part of the OS image, with the exception of /var, must be in
the same dataset as the root file system. In addition, all Solaris OS
components must reside in the root pool with the exception of the swap
and dump devices.
Maybe someone else can comment on their OpenSolaris experiences. I'm not
sure we've done enough testing to relax this requirement for OpenSolaris
releases.
In the meantime, I would suggest following the above requirement until
we're sure alternate configurations are supportable.
Thanks,
Cindy
On 01/22/10 05:17, Alexander wrote:
Is it possible to extend boot-archive in such a way
that it include most of the files necessary for
mounting /etc from separate pool? Have someone tried
such configurations?
What does the live CD do?
I'm not sure that it is the same configuration, but maybe it is quite similar... LiveCD has ramdisk which is mounted on boot. /etc is on this ramdisk...
And in real system configuration we need some way to sync real /etc and ramdisk (or boot archive) /etc. With ramdisk this may be a problem.
But
1) I don't understand deeply how livecd boots (maybe need to look at this process more attentively)
2) In my opinion its boot process is quite specific and quite different from
real sustem behavior. I'm not sure that this practices may be adopted...
However, I'm not confident (1)...
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