Just a quick question that occurred to me in the shower this morning, Once booting from ZFS is supported, are there plans to support live upgrade using clones? This would be analogous to the current process of splitting an SVM mirror for live upgrade, but with all the advantages of ZFS. Boyd
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:17AM +0900, Boyd Adamson wrote:> Just a quick question that occurred to me in the shower this morning, > > Once booting from ZFS is supported, are there plans to support live > upgrade using clones? This would be analogous to the current process > of splitting an SVM mirror for live upgrade, but with all the > advantages of ZFS.Yep, this is in the plans. Besides the obvious changes to the install and upgrade tools, we need ZFS support for ''clone swap'' (6276916), which would allow you to take a clone and make it the active filesystem, switching places with the other. We think the idea is pretty cool too ;-) - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
booting from ZFS is supported? What''s the procedure ??? I''d like to get rid of of Solaris Volume Manager and use zfs for the OS file systems instead. Anyone knows where the documentation is? Toni This message posted from opensolaris.org
Toni, Booting from a ZFS filesystem is not currently supported. The ZFS Boot project has been tasked with providing this support in the near future. Please check blogs.sun.com/tabriz for ZFS Boot information. Tabriz Toni Ribas wrote:>booting from ZFS is supported? What''s the procedure ??? >I''d like to get rid of of Solaris Volume Manager and use zfs for the OS file systems instead. > >Anyone knows where the documentation is? > >Toni >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >zfs-discuss mailing list >zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > >
Hi Toni, On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 08:40 -0800, Toni Ribas wrote:> booting from ZFS is supported? What''s the procedure ??? > I''d like to get rid of of Solaris Volume Manager and use zfs for the OS file systems instead.Nope, booting from ZFS isn''t yet supported (unless you count booting a diskless client over NFS shared from a server running ZFS, which I imagine isn''t what you mean) but it is being worked on.> Anyone knows where the documentation is?There''s a FAQ at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/#zfsboot which addresses your question, which in turn points to Tabriz'' blog at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz?entry=zfs_boot Hope this helps, cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operations http://blogs.sun.com/timf
Booting from ZFS is not yet supported. Keep an eye
on Tabriz Leman''s weblog to monitor the status of
this project.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tabriz
Lori Alt
Toni Ribas wrote:> booting from ZFS is supported? What''s the procedure ???
> I''d like to get rid of of Solaris Volume Manager and use zfs for
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> Anyone knows where the documentation is?
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> Toni
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Booting from ZFS isn''t currently supported but is coming in the future. You can look for updates and info on booting from ZFS at Tabriz''s blog: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz Noel :-) ************************************************************************ ** "Question all the answers" On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Toni Ribas wrote:> booting from ZFS is supported? What''s the procedure ??? > I''d like to get rid of of Solaris Volume Manager and use zfs for the > OS file systems instead. > > Anyone knows where the documentation is? > > Toni > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
> Booting from a ZFS filesystem is not currently supported. The ZFS Boot > project has been tasked with providing this support in the near future.I know you can''t make any official commitments now, but... Can you reveal whether current plans are to include ZFS boot support along with ZFS itself in S10 update 2, and at the same time make ZFS the default for new installations instead of UFS? Or is this at least currently a consideration, depending on how smoothly the testing goes in SX, or has this timetable already been ruled out as being too soon? This message posted from opensolaris.org
> I know you can''t make any official commitments now, but... > Can you reveal whether current plans are to include ZFS boot support along > with ZFS itself in S10 update 2, and at the same time make ZFS the default > for new installations instead of UFS?Sure. The goal for S10 U2 is to make ZFS boot possible for intrepid souls, though not available as a standard install option. As you might imagine, the install code has a lot of hard-wired assumptions about filesystems that are no longer true for ZFS. In a future update, ZFS root will be available as an install option; at some point after that, it will become the default option; and by S11, I would hope that it''s the only option. Jeff