zfs discuss - Dec 2006 - ZFS bootability target

Hi

I am about to plan an upgrade of about 500 systems (sparc) to Solaris 10 and
would like to go for ZFS to manage the rootdisk. But what timeframe are we
looking at? and what should we take into account to be able to migrate to it
later on?

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> I am about to plan an upgrade of about 500 systems (sparc) to Solaris 10
and
> would like to go for ZFS to manage the rootdisk. But what timeframe are we
> looking at?
I''ve heard update 5, so several months at least.
> and what should we take into account to be able to migrate to it
> later on?
Are you isolating OS/root data from application/user data?  Do you have
2 dedicated disks to mirror root on?  If so, my guess is that later
upgrading will be easy.  Root ZFS pools will be restricted, so you
won''t
be sharing them with your non-root data in most cases.  That suggests to
me that I''d be able to break my existing SVM mirror and install a ZFS
root, later mirroring with the other disk.

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