[OpenIndiana-discuss] Split-root installations

[Irek Szczesniak]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> On 2013-11-17 03:50, Jim Klimov wrote:
>>
>>    For years I've mentioned "split-root" installations of Solaris-like
>> systems in such a way that the root filesystem (the BE) is represented
>> by several datasets, such as a split-off /usr dataset. Also there may
>> be some datasets shared between boot environments, such as the sinks
>> for logs and crashdumps, and not all of these are required to live on
>> the rpool at all. There are cases when all such tweaks may be desirable.
>
>
> WARNING
>
> As discussed in another thread, it was discovered that the SMF methods
> for network/physical (both :default and :nwam) use many programs from
> /usr, and are executed before the /usr filesystem is actually mounted

Which utilities do you need? Have you checked the output of builtin |
fgrep /usr/ast/bin?

Irek