On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:52 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > How close is Solaris Express build 90 to what will be released as the > official Solaris 10 update 6? > > We just bought five x4500 servers, but I don't really want to deploy in > production with U5. There are a number of features in U6 I'd like to have > (zfs allow for better integration with our local identity system, refquota > support to minimize user confusion, ZFS boot, ...) > > On the other hand, I don't really want to let these five servers sit around > as insanely expensive and heavy paperweights all summer waiting for U6 to > hopefully be released by September. > > My understanding is that SXCE maintains the same packaging system and > jumpstart installation procedure as Solaris 10 (as opposed to OpenSolaris, > which is completely different). If SXCE is close enough to what will become > Solaris 10U6, I could do my initial development and integration on top of > that, and be ready to go into production almost as soon as U6 is released, > rather than wait for it to be released and then have to spin my wheels > working with it.
While the S10 updates include features backported from Nevada you can only upgrade from S10 to Solaris Express, not the other way around (which would technically be a downgrade). (As you probably know Solaris 10 and Nevada are completely separate lines of development. Solaris Express is built from Nevada, as are the other OpenSolaris distributions.) > > Would it be feasible to develop a ZFS boot jumpstart configuration with > SXCE that would be mostly compatible with U6? Does SXCE have any particular > ZFS features above and beyond what will be included in U6 I should be sure > to avoid? Any other caveats I would want to take into consideration? > I don't think there will be any spec changes for S10u6 from the ZFS boot support currently available in SX, but the JumpStart configuration for SX might not be compatible for other reasons (install-discuss may know better). -Albert _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
