On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Bob Netherton wrote: > Get some stick time with this capability using SXCE or OpenSolaris so > that you can reduce the time it takes to deploy whatever upcoming Solaris > update has ZFS root (how's that for being evasive....).
I've heard from reasonably credible sources that ZFS boot will be released in U6, I will be extremely disappointed if that is not the case :(. Will the jumpstart configuration for ZFS root in an upcoming update (which best be U6 or I might go postal ;) ) be pretty much the same as exists in SXCE? > Out of curiosity, where did it miss the mark ? It is still very much > work in progress, early adopter stuff, but what were the things that kept > you from deploying it. Just curious. We have a customized almost completely hands-off jumpstart installation configuration for Solaris; hand installing from a GUI wasn't exactly compelling. In addition, there was no package customization available for the install. I spent a couple of days trying to convert an OpenSolaris 2005.08 installation into a configuration suitable for a production server, but I kept breaking stuff trying to prune out extraneous packages. >From various mailing list threads, I got the impression that people were having weird problems. Also, I was unable to clarify exactly how support for openSolaris was going to work, which would make me uncomfortable deploying it in a critical production server. Maybe in six months or a year once enterprise-level installers are available and the support model shakes out we can re-evaluate it. I really did like the concept of the new packaging, it's much better than the existing patch hell. Still quite a few rough edges though... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
