Hello Lori,

Friday, July 28, 2006, 6:50:55 PM, you wrote:

>>> Right now I have such configurations and have been using smpatch
>>> without any problems so far.
>> 
>> I thought I read somewhere (zones guide?) that putting the zone root fs
>> on zfs was unsupported.

LA> You've missed the earlier part of this thread.  Yes, it's
LA> unsupported, but the question was asked "Does it work anyway?"
LA> and the short answer is "yes, it mostly does, but there
LA> are enough complications and known problems with the
LA> patching and upgrade of this configuration that it
LA> is currently unsupported."

Not that much problems actually.
If you are not going to use Live Upgrade and you put only zone's
root-fs on a ZFS and do not create another ZFS filesystems for zone's
/var, /opt, /usr, etc. then you shouldn't be affected.
In such a config smpatch/updatemanager just work.

-- 
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 Robert                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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