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<p><tt><font size="2">"Nikola M." <minikola@gmail.com> wrote on 07/24/2014 03:08:41 AM:</font></tt><br>
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> On 07/24/14 02:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:<br>
> > Thank you for your opinions. I didn't think anyone ran <br>
> configurations like you describe, but now I know someone does.<br>
> ><br>
> > My feeling is that your use case is still rather niche at least <br>
> within this community. As such I won't tell you what<br>
> Sure thing it is about distribution work. And thank you for hearing me out.<br>
> <br>
> I see myself communicating to wildness of Admins from other systems in <br>
> their initial contact with illumos distros. If I try to convert user to <br>
> use illumos distro, I don't expect it to dedicate hardware right away <br>
> just to indulge me (that is also what live media is all about), but I <br>
> expect him to expect from distro that he/she can use new system on <br>
> existing hardware, without disturbing current installation and <br>
> including use of illumos-based virtualization.. and that's what dual <br>
> boot is all about. Poor man server for testing of deployments and as <br>
> demonstrator without killing present install.<br>
> <br>
> Sure thing, once explained that it is better for ZFS to use whole <br>
> disk(s), newcomer would at least use separate device for illumos distro, <br>
> but that also includes dual-boot option in Grub.<br>
> If they are direct customers, surely they will prepare dedicated <br>
> hardware but there are places in between that new users would like to have.<br>
> Sorry for writing too much again :) , but hey, we are here to understand <br>
> each other. Thanks.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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<tt><font size="2">At the end of the day, it doesn't matter for your situation. Garrett didn't </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">say no distro can/should provide the option (not that he could enforce </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">that, even if he did say it), he just wants the bitrotten copy of parted </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">out of Illumos/ON. Any code that's rotting, should probably be dropped, </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">and anyone who wants to support it in their OS should just bring it into </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">their own consolidation (either the copy that was in Illumos/ON or an </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">up-to-date copy from upstream). This actually makes things better for you, </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">because it will get maintained, which it's not in Illumos/ON.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">Nothing in Illimos/ON depends on parted, so it can be removed from </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">Illumos/ON and imported into /hipster without affecting the user to any </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">significant extent.</font></tt></body></html>