The other way to look at it is that it’s a waste of RAM to put even a minimal boot disk in RAM. It really depends on which you value more. The biggest value of

The other way to look at it is that it’s a waste of RAM to put even a minimal boot disk in RAM. It really depends on which you value more. The biggest value of this approach is that you are sure that every boot runs the latest OS image. That could be accomplished in other ways. I say this as the personal opinion of the former engineering lead for the team that maintained SmartOS at Joyent.