On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >> Do I understand correctly if I read this as: OpenSolaris is able to >> switch between systems without reinstalling? Just a zfs import -f and >> everything runs? Wow, that would be an improvemment and would make >> things more like *BSD/linux. > > Solaris has been able to do that for 20+ years. Why do you think > it should be broken now?
Only for "sufficiently similar" systems. There's historically been an awful lot of detailed system configuration baked into an installed image. Yes, you can get rid of it, but the idea that you could pull drives from a failed system and put them into any old system they might happen to fit in and expect it to just work has always been optimistic. The advantage of zfs is that it abstracts a lot of that away. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
