Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote:
You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS
partition to boot off of.
See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble
That's not was I was refering to. I'm interested in testing the install/boot
stuff that's being worked on. The "No-UFS Needed" kind. ;)
We do have a new version of the procedure documented
in Tabriz's blog that no longer requires the UFS partition.
I will look into getting that made available and will
announce its availability on this alias. It's still a largely
manual procedure involving bfu.
As for the regular install/boot support of zfs, there are some
issues preventing the release of this. First, the Solaris
install code has not yet been open-sourced, so we
can't provide the install code changes for zfs boot. So,
why not provide install executables and let you build
your own ISO or netinstall images? Because the zfs boot
support in the kernel has not yet been integrated into
Solaris, so the source available to the Open Solaris
community doesn't have the code changes yet.
So maybe provide the diffs and let the community
build it themselves? Well, to do a regular install,
you need packages, not BFU archives. And the
Open Solaris community can't build the necessary
packages yet because of this bug:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6414822
So either the zfs boot support has to be putback
into Solaris, or the above bug needs to be fixed
before we can make a zfs-capable install solution
available to the Open Solaris community.
Lori Alt
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