[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 03:58, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Why shouldn't they be, by default, where all the other filesystems are?
> You don't use the 'nfs' command to mount remote volumes, or the 'pcfs'
> command to mount a DOS floppy.  You use the mount command, or stick it
> in /etc/vfstab if you want the system to know where stuff goes.
> 
> Needless inconsistency is a bug.

It is clear to me that Solaris will eventually have /etc/vfstab around
as just being there for legacy support.  Once they have another release
of ZFS, they will have support for booting from ZFS.

In the meantime, they will not break backwards compatibility.  

--P