I checked into this and got some information from the install group. What I learned is this: the process of creating a flash archive is just a matter of using cpio/pax to make a copy of the contents of an installed system. A flash archive doesn't contain any information about the configuration (i.e. storage partitioning) of a system. It's more like a 'super-package' which contains all of the system software plus some customizations. When you install a flash archive, you need to have already created the storage to hold the archive contents. That's done with the standard Solaris install software (same as a regular initial install, upgrade, jumpstart, or liveupgrade). But the distributed Solaris install software is not yet zfs-aware.
So the answer to your question is that you can create a flash archive from this system with zfs filesystems, but until the install software is zfs-aware, you can't use the archive to create a system with zfs pools and datasets. Full support for zfs in flash archives will come with the rest of the zfs installation/boot support. Lori Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
Hi, I'm currently setting up a demo machine. It would be nice to set up everything the way I like it, including a number of ZFS filesystems, then create a flash archive, then install from that archive. Will there be any issues with webstart flash and ZFS? Does flar create need to be ZFS aware and if so, is it ZFS aware in S10u2b09a? Best regards, Constantin
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