I currently have b60 kinda installed (there, but still having some issues learning my way around configuration). I am downloading b62 now in order to try to switch to zfs mirrored root. I thought that I should make sure I know what I am doing before I go forward, so here are a few questions...
1. Am I correct in assuming that the current mechanism ( http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/ ) still requires that we boot into an installed version of b62 before converting to zfs? 2. Am I correct in assuming that the current mechanism still requires a miniature ufs boot to be on the system containing the grub information on how to get into zfs? 3. Am I correct that root zfs root can still be mirror but not pool? 4. The current instructions appear to be saying that the zfs root is on its own drive (other than the default boot drive) or onto a different slice onto the same drive. If I am understanding that correctly, then during install I would need to make the UFS slice big enough for the install, and leave the other slice unformatted until I go to setup the zfs root. When I create the zfs root, it appears that the instructions are to basically move all the files from the UFS slice onto the ZFS slice..... so: 4a. Does this mean that the UFS slice is going to be basically a large-ish unused slice for the most part? IE: There is no way to reclaim that space for the zfs partition? 4b. Does this mean that if I want the root mirrored, I need to do a UFS mirror for the root slice and a ZFS mirror for the secondary slices? Wow. Ok, thanks for all the help and wish me good luck :) Mal
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