[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Peter Tribble]

On 10/7/07, Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > I completely agree, perhaps "syspool" and "userpool" would be the most
> > appropriate here? With /usr/local falling under userpool perhaps?
>
> Not if pkgadd (or its successor) put stuff there or is likely to do so
> in the future.  If pkgadd or its successor has a monolithic package
> database, anything the package database touches must be part of the
> root pool.  To me the root pool minimally contains the set of
> directories that are affected by the packaging database that delivers
> /.

I would go further and want to see that set of directories as a single dataset.

The case of /usr/local is arguable, though. I wouldn't expect that to be
part of the packaging domain. On my systems /usr/local is just a
symlink pointing to a relevant automounted nfs filesystem that is
shared amongst all machines. (I shared the same one amongst all versions
of Solaris until Solaris 10, which shipped enough utilities that I could
clean /usr/local out. The fact that half the stuff I've built for Solaris 10
doesn't work on Solaris Express means I'll have to build up another
instance.)

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