[OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: combo storage/virtualization server

[Eric Sproul]

Grr, forgot to reply-all...


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From: Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] combo storage/virtualization server
To: "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org>


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
>> The biggest issue with OpenIndiana minimization was the interlocking
>> incorporation dependencies.
>
>
> Ah, yes, IPS <sigh>. That definitely wouldn't be a problem with illumian
> then.

To be clear, IPS isn't the problem.  OmniOS uses IPS but delivers a
much-reduced set of packages.  The issue is the decisions made about
how to group individual pieces of software together, and how tightly
to couple them.  OI is, in large part, identical to OpenSolaris in
this respect, maintaining the majority of the incorporations that
caused us to go a different way.

Eric