Hi On my opensolaris machine I currently have SXCEs 95 and 94 in two BEs. The same fdisk partition contains /export/home and swap. In a separate fdisk partition on another disk I have a ZFS pool. Does anyone have a pointer to a howto for doing a liveupgrade such that I can convert the SXCE 94 UFS BE to ZFS (and liveupgrade to SXCE 96 while I''m at it) if this is possible? Searching with google shows a lot of blogs that describe the early problems that existed when ZFS was first available (ON 90 or so). A+ Paul This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Paul Floyd wrote:> Does anyone have a pointer to a howto for doing a liveupgrade such that > I can convert the SXCE 94 UFS BE to ZFS (and liveupgrade to SXCE 96 > while I''m at it) if this is possible? Searching with google shows a lot > of blogs that describe the early problems that existed when ZFS was > first available (ON 90 or so).It should be fairly straightforward to convert to ZFS: lucreate -p <pool> -n <new BE name> Doing the upgrade to 96, should be luupgrade -u -n <new BE name> -s <source image> Regards, markm
Hi, I think LU 94->96 would be fine, if there''s no zone in your system, just simply do # cd <cdrom>/Solaris_11/Tools/Installers # liveupgrade20 --nodisplay # lucreate -c BE94 -n BE96 -p newpool (The newpool must be SMI lable) # luupgrade -u -n BE96 -s <cdrom> # luactivate BE96 # init 6 During snv_90~96, quite a lot LU bugs are solved, so I think you could complete the process successfully, if no special case.. Paul Floyd wrote:> Hi > > On my opensolaris machine I currently have SXCEs 95 and 94 in two BEs. The same fdisk partition contains /export/home and swap. In a separate fdisk partition on another disk I have a ZFS pool. > > Does anyone have a pointer to a howto for doing a liveupgrade such that I can convert the SXCE 94 UFS BE to ZFS (and liveupgrade to SXCE 96 while I''m at it) if this is possible? Searching with google shows a lot of blogs that describe the early problems that existed when ZFS was first available (ON 90 or so). > > A+ > Paul > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
Hi I''m not sure that the ZFS pool meets this requirement. I have # lufslist SXCE_94 Filesystem fstype device size Mounted on Mount Options ----------------------- -------- ------------ ------------------- -------------- /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s1 swap 2147880960 - - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 ufs 8590202880 / - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 ufs 5747496960 /export/home - # lufslist SXCE_95 Filesystem fstype device size Mounted on Mount Options ----------------------- -------- ------------ ------------------- -------------- /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s1 swap 2147880960 - - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s4 ufs 8590202880 / - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 ufs 5747496960 /export/home - Is it possible to delete SXCE_94, do a zpool create with /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0, and then do a liveupgrade? I have the impression that it''s possible, but that there are some extra steps needed (to specify the ZFS mount point?). A+ Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Hi I''m not sure that the ZFS pool meets this requirement. I have # lufslist SXCE_94 Filesystem fstype device size Mounted on Mount Options ----------------------- -------- ------------ ------------------- -------------- /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s1 swap 2147880960 - - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 ufs 8590202880 / - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 ufs 5747496960 /export/home - # lufslist SXCE_95 Filesystem fstype device size Mounted on Mount Options ----------------------- -------- ------------ ------------------- -------------- /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s1 swap 2147880960 - - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s4 ufs 8590202880 / - /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 ufs 5747496960 /export/home - Is it possible to delete SXCE_94, do a zpool create with /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0, and then do a liveupgrade? I have the impression that it''s possible, but that there are some extra steps needed (to specify the ZFS mount point?). A+ Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org