[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Evan Layton]

Dave Miner wrote:
> 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.

OK that makes sense.

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

This is true. I was just trying to understand if there was a way to solve
the problem they're hitting now with the current bits.

> 
> Dave