[oi-dev] New Project Lead?

[Joerg Schilling]

Nick Zivkovic <zivkovic.nick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wish I had known about Schillix-ON earlier. I had just finished
> upgrading to OI151a.
>
> Are Schillix-ON and the OI userland mutually exclusive? Or can we swap
> the Illumos and Schillix-ON kernels as we please? I hope both kernels
> can mutually read each others' zfs pools, to avoid unintentional
> lock-in.

If you don't create a ZFS pool that uses the Illumos extensions, there is no 
problem with exchanging ZFS pools.

If Illumos did not introduce incompatible interfaces, you should be able to 
swap the Illumos base with SchilliX-ON, but note that Illumos removed several 
packages that are still part of SchilliX-ON (schillix-on did even re-add code 
that was removed by Sun earlier) and so you may need to adopt what you 
add....

If Illumos renamed packages, this may create a problem...

SchilliX-ON by default creates Svr5 packages and IPS packages, but the IPS 
packages have never been tested.

> It would be beneficial to OI and its users to offer a choice between
> kernels, if this is at all feasible.
>
> It would also be great if Schillix-ON can offer a list of "different
> goals" they have from Illumos. How is a potential user/contributor
> supposed to know which kernel to use, aside from picking the most
> popular one off hand?
>
> I see that Shillix-ON deviates from Illumos since version 147, I
> wonder if KVM support is planned?

SchilliX is not related to Illumos but to the Sun supplied ONNV build 147+.

For contributing to SchilliX-ON, the current rules are not to remove code 
without really good reason and that enhancements should be POSIX compliant 
and compatible to SVr4. 

Jörg

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