On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:31:38PM -0400, Jim Connors wrote: > > o I've got a modified Solaris miniroot with ZFS functionality which > takes up about 60 MB (The compressed image, which GRUB uses, is less > than 30MB). Solaris boots entirely into RAM. From poweron to full > functionality, it takes about 45 seconds to boot on a very modest 1GHz > Cyrix Mini ITX motherboard.
That's great, keep up the good work!! > o As Solaris runs entirely in RAM, there is no Solaris footprint on the > attached storage. It is entirely dedicated to ZFS. With a little > kludgery, all state can be managed from ZFS in effect making Solaris > stateless. There should be no serious ramifications to pulling the plug > on this device. In fact that's pretty much how this thing is rebooted > right now. This is already one of the reasons I love Solaris so much, with UFS logging I can pull the plug on my U1 firewall and never have to worry about it getting screwed up, this just takes that a step further. > Yeah I know this is silly, but it's fun. Time to get back to my real job Not at all silly. Solaris is a fantastic OS, and this would just be yet another great application for it's greatness to shine. ;) *I* would definitely use it this way, no doubt about it. -brian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
