Depends on whether you are willing to put up with possible issues,as highlighted with the current twinview troubles :-). svn_110 broke Xen for me, svn_111 fixed it and broke TwinView :-)
Y. Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > Great, thank you. I will study it. > > One last question: is there any reason to prefer one of the new > releases over the other? Should I just go with 111? I am updating a > Toshiba Satellite laptop. > > Kostas > > Michal Pryc wrote: >> Hi, >> I will point you to my article ;) >> http://developers.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/opensolaris/bootenvironments/index.html >> >> >> >> best >> Michal Pryc >> >> Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >>> Thanks to all who responded. >>> >>> There is one more thing. What exactly is the definition of a "boot >>> environment"? >>> Alfred said it's a ZFS snapshot. From what I understand of ZFS, it >>> doesn't have the (old) concept of file systems mounted on disk >>> partitions. So does the ZFS snapshot mean that the snapshot will >>> contain my entire disk? /usr, /opt /export/home, etc? Or what does >>> it mean? >>> >>> Kostas >>> >>> Michal Pryc wrote: >>>> Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I am running 2008.11, and I am considering upgrading to a later >>>>> build, say 110. >>>>> The problem is that I also have a few non-IPS packages installed. >>>>> For example, Qt 4 from SFE. This is an SVR4 package that installs >>>>> into /usr. >>>>> >>>>> If I upgrade to a later build using ''pkg image-update'' >>>>> >>>>> 1. Will the old (saved) boot environment contain my non-IPS >>>>> packages, or will they be lost? >>>> They should be preserved, but if any of the IPS package will >>>> contain the same file as the SVR4 package it will be overridden by >>>> the IPS one. >>>> >>>>> 2. Will the new boot environment contain them, or will I need to >>>>> re-install them? >>>> It should contain, but as I said some files might be overridden. >>>> >>>> best >>>> Michal Pryc >>>> >>
