Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Beleive me, I understand the wins from using ZFS. Using it for root
>> probably has benefits I haven't even imagined yet. I am looking forward
>> to playing with that to be sure. But I think it might be short sighted
>> to expect all of Sun's customers to adoopt 'ZFS on root' in order to be
>> able touse Solaris 11.
>>
>
> I would think so too. Also, this would seem to preclude any form of
> upgrade from Solaris 10 or earlier (no ZFS root)
>
> The step from not allowing something to requiring something in one release
> it just too big.
>
>
Unless like I asked, the 'old' installer is still an option to install
(or upgrade to) NV in the traditional manner.
>> In the ZFS world updating a live BE won't require a seperate BE to
>> update, but I hope the notion of seperate BE's doesn't diappear, for the
>> dual booting funtionalty. without truely seperate areas of the disk, I
>> can't keep S10 and SNV easily (well I can go back to switching in OBP on
>> SPARC but...) S10 won't understand ZFS.
>>
>
> So your question is, can I have multiple bootable ZFS pools?
>
>
In the long term yes.
In the short term, It's can I have one ZFS pool, and one 'traditional
SVM/ufs pool'.
-Kyle
