search for: are_you_ready_to_rumbl

I have posted a blog http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/ on how I have configured a zfs root partition on my laptop. It is a slightly modified version of Tabriz''s blog http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz?entry=are_you_ready_to_rumble The main differences, is that I only require a very small ufs partition for grub, and I detail how to use a zfs clone as a test root partition. Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org

...back > > in, or just use the old bits. Lin or Lori could probably provide > more > > details, or correct me... > > > > > If you''re using pre-build 62 bits, and the old > manual setup procedure documented in > > http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble > > a raidz pool can be used for booting. > > The zfs booter, in the current implementation, expects > to find these critical files: > > /boot/grub/menu.lst > /platform/i86pc/boot_archive > /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix > > in a dataset in a zfs pool and it...

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz#are_you_ready_to_rumble I''ve been running this for a couple of months on my desktop, which hold my home directory, more than the corp. specified number of years of email, etc. Experimental but quite stable. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.c...