Flash archive created on filesystem level, it is just find /-print | cpio ...
(It is not "find" but "fdo" of course - doing same + filtering, by looking at flarcreate you may see what actually excluded - added to filter with '-' sign). So in this terms it does not preserve any information which are on sector level etc. Like for example SVM configuration. To preserve this kind of information custom precreation scripts may be used to bring this kind of data into files and so be saved in flash archive. Then this need to be taken from archive and put into clone's filesystem by custom predeployment or postdeployment scripts. This is how it was done for SVM configuretion. SVM team provides this scripts to Flash. During deployment flash utilize same approach install uses - copy certain files from miniroot - /etc/vfstab and so from transferlist. In this terms it is not exact copy of original system. Otherwise it is the same. vassun. This message posted from opensolaris.org
