[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Shawn Walker]

On 07/10/2007, 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
> /.

>From what I gather, ips (the likely successor to the current packaging
tools) doesn't have a "monolithic" package database and is supposed to
allow multiple processes to install packages at the same time as long
as they don't clobber each other. However, I could be horribly wrong.

Nonetheless, a credible point.

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