Hi Cyril, thanks for your quick response! Cyril Plisko wrote: > On 4/5/07, Jakob Praher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi all, > >> >> I am new to solaris. >> I am creating a zfs filestore which should boot via rootfs. >> The version of the system is: SunOS store1 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc >> i386 i86pc. >> >> Now I have seen that there is a new rootfs support for solaris starting >> with build: snv_62. >> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/) >> >> Is it >> a) possible to start from a raidz pool? > > No. At this point raidz pool is not usable as a boot pool. >
Is this possible then to use a mirror pool? >> b) possible to update my version using a patch from the web to the above >> version? > > Generally speaking there is no patch to get your system from any 5.x > release > to 5.x+1 release. You may, however, upgrade your current system from > SunOS 5.10 to Nevada using regular LiveUpgrade or DeadUpgrade(TM) > procedure. > > (I would just install from scratch - assuming you have all your valuable > data stored externally or on exportable zpool) > So to get this right: Nevada == Solaris Express?! This is a little bit confusing. I am very glad Ian Murdock joined Sun. Hopefully system upgrade will be as easy as apt-get dist-upgrade. Is there any easy way to just get the latest solaris kernel via web? thanks Jakob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
