Anxiously anticipating the ability to boot off zfs, I know there's been some talk about leveraging some of the snapshotting/cloning features in conjunction with upgrades and patches.
What I am really hoping for is the ability to clone /, patch the clone, then boot off the clone (by doing a clone swap). This would minimize the downtime needed to patch (as compared to today) since the install could be done while the system is still up and running. I suspect to do this might require some interaction with things like patchadd, etc., so I am curious if such a feature is already in the works, or if perhaps an RFE should be filed. Assuming the plans are already there for this, I'd like to anticipate any gotchas with our standard install procedure, and was just wondering if any thought had been put in as to what the requirements would be. Just off the top of my head, I would guess it'd mostly revolve around making sure stuff is separated properly into different filesystems, but was curious if anyone else has thought about this. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
