[indiana-discuss] scope (was ZFS to the max)

[Richard Elling]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:13:57PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, in light of this, my take now is that coming up with the 100%
>> open-source thing from which the distro constructor will build is
>> actually going to be rather tricky business, correct?  If so, can I and
>> others interested in this concept help in any way at this point?
> 
> Well, to be fair, the bulk of the packages that don't come from ON or SFW
> are from NWS, and are there so people can boot off of fibrechannel SAN
> devices and fun things like that.  I don't know if those really need to be
> in Indiana, at least for the first cut.

erm... there are systems which only boot (disk) off of FC, they have no other
disk interfaces.  I would expect that they would like to boot, too.
  -- richard