[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Dave Miner]

Evan Layton wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 26, 2009, at 11:59 PM, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar at fajar.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Evan Layton <Evan.Layton at sun.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> That doesn't mean you can't fake one up outside of beadm as suggested 
>>> below
>>> however that's not a supported method for creating BE's. Plus the 
>>> ability to
>>> do this will probably be impacted going forwad as more BE validation is
>>> added to beadm. We will likely not support BE's created outside beadm 
>>> once
>>> that validation work is complete. (see bug 891)
>>
>> I see. So what is the recommended method of using the same zpool for
>> multiple OS?
>> Is it by creating a BE using beadm and overwriting its content? Or is
>> this completely unsupported, and we should have one pool for each OS?
>>
>> -- 
>> Fajar
> 
> I don't know of any support for installing multiple OS's in the same pool.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what problem is being solved by attempting to 
> install multiple OS's in the same pool.
> 

We have RFE's for this sort of installation; I expect we will implement 
it because it is a viable transition strategy, especially from Solaris 
10 updates with ZFS.

We already have the needed support in libbe's be_init.  Exposing it at 
the CLI would be fairly simple.

Dave