To me, it seems obvious that there are likely to be many people waiting for ZFS
root support in the installer.
I've added the following text to a page on genunix about the current state of
play with ZFS root. Please feel free to use all, any or indeed none of it on
http://opensolaris.org/os/com
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:29:31PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> For ZFS root, is it required to have a partition and slices? Or can I just
> give it the whole disk and have it write an EFI label on it?
Last I heard, no support yet for EFI boot. I'm not sure if that's
something that's being acti
andrew> Would it be possible for future significant ZFS-related
andrew> improvements to Nevada be flagged up on the "heads up" page
andrew> at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/all/
andrew> and also on the announce forum/list, along with a note of
andrew> which build of Nevada th
Would it be possible for future significant ZFS-related improvements to Nevada
be flagged up on the "heads up" page at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/all/ and also on the
announce forum/list, along with a note of which build of Nevada they were
integrated to? I'm thinking
To do what you want requires at least Nevada build 88, or probably build 90
since the Nevada installer, unlike the one in OpenSolaris 2008.05, cannot
currently install into a ZFS root pool. Support was added to the text-mode
installer and JumpStart in build 90 for installing Solaris to a ZFS roo
