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

[Andrew M. Hettinger]

"Nikola M." <minikola at gmail.com> wrote on 07/24/2014 03:08:41 AM:
>
> 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.
>
>

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter for your situation. Garrett didn't
say no distro can/should provide the option (not that he could enforce
that, even if he did say it), he just wants the bitrotten copy of parted
out of Illumos/ON. Any code that's rotting, should probably be dropped,
and anyone who wants to support it in their OS should just bring it into
their own consolidation (either the copy that was in Illumos/ON or an
up-to-date copy from upstream). This actually makes things better for you,
because it will get maintained, which it's not in Illumos/ON.

Nothing in Illimos/ON depends on parted, so it can be removed from
Illumos/ON and imported into /hipster without affecting the user to any
significant extent.
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