[indiana-discuss] A Bug? A usability issue? Feature request? Time to get used to it? Idiot User?

[Steve P]

Hi

Ok I have been using Indiana on my development laptop for a while, I am 
very impressed.  One feature I am particularly impressed with is PKG & 
BEADM on ZFS.

The ability patch a boot environment and boot into it (and back if 
needed) really is setting opensolaris apart from other solutions. 
However if you install AMP and setup a database your database is not by 
default exported to different boot environments.

Let me expand for clarity:

1) I install opensolaris, & amp (beadm rename originalenviro)
2) I setup a apache, mysql and php application and start importing data.
3) I "beadm create newenviro"
4) data still goes into originalenviro until I boot into newenviro
5) boot into newenviro and the new mysql data is lost.
6) same is true of /var/apache2

OK options and work arounds exist, I could stop mysql before the beadm 
create, I could move the mysql spool location.

So should the AMP default locations be different? Should the BEADM 
export other locations or do I chalk it down to a PITA and start rolling 
my own?

Steve P