Hi I am very interested in using ZFS as a whole: meaning on the whole disk in my laptop. I would now make a complete reinstall and don?t know how to partition the disk initially for ZFS. -- Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 08:21 -0800, Roman Morokutti wrote:> Hi > > I am very interested in using ZFS as a whole: meaning > on the whole disk in my laptop. I would now make a > complete reinstall and don??t know how to partition > the disk initially for ZFS. > > -- > Roman > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discussAFAIK, ZFS boot will only work with disk slices at the moment, so you still need to create an x86 (fdisk) partition for Solaris and at least one slice for root. Your options are to netinstall or install to UFS and copy the files to ZFS. See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/
Hi, thank you for your info. The netinstall would fit perfectly. The following text out from the README does prevent me from using it yet:> Although this is not enforced yet, it is likely > the required convention for dataset name will be this. > > pool-name/boot-environment-name[/directory in Solaris name space]Is this kind of definition also possible? It would be desirable just because of "live updating" the system. The other way round I would have to make an ordinary installation with only one root slice and to manually switch to ZFS and subsequently making the BE pools. -- Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org