[oi-dev] Fwd: [developer] Please review 4989 - BIS

[Nikola M.]

On 07/24/14 02:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Thank you for your opinions.  I didn't think anyone ran configurations like you describe, but now I know someone does.
>
> My feeling is that your use case is still rather niche at least within this community.  As such I won't tell you what
Sure thing it is about distribution work. And thank you for hearing me out.

I see myself communicating to wildness of Admins from other systems in 
their initial contact with illumos distros. If I try to convert user to 
use illumos distro, I don't expect it to dedicate hardware right away 
just to indulge me (that is also what live media is all about), but I 
expect him to expect from distro that he/she can use new system on 
existing hardware,  without disturbing current installation and 
including use of illumos-based virtualization.. and that's what dual 
boot is all about.  Poor man server for testing of deployments and as 
demonstrator without killing present install.

Sure thing, once explained that it is better for ZFS to use whole 
disk(s), newcomer would at least use separate device for illumos distro, 
but that also includes dual-boot option in Grub.
If they are direct customers, surely they will prepare dedicated 
hardware but there are places in between that new users would like to have.
Sorry for writing too much again :) , but hey, we are here to understand 
each other. Thanks.