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

[elw at stderr.org]

> I think that's a matter of opinion:) I don't know anything about SMF but 
> I've just had a look at 
> http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=182 and it looks total 
> overkill for Indiana. Maybe if I was running a 32 cpu multiuser box SMF 
> would be great, but thats a job for Solaris not Indiana - XML manifests? 
> Shudder.

SMF is not overkill for indiana.

it might be overkill to instantiate quite the number of SMF services that 
a full-blown solaris installation does at first-boot, but SMF itself is 
incredibly useful.  ;)

you *can* have too much of a good thing, but I don't think SMF is that.

you get used to it very quickly - it is very nice to work on, as well, 
when you find that you need to deploy a new service of some kind....

it isn't rocket science, just not familiar to everyone.

--e