Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: a new heads-up

[Lori Alt]

Malachi de Ælfweald wrote:

This may be a very stupid question, but

In the current procedure, we have to install onto UFS then convert the 
UFS to ZFS...


During install, we can launch a terminal and run ZFS commands...

Would it be possible, doing a fresh install, to use the terminal to 
run some ZFS commands and install directly onto the newly created zfs 
pools during install with b62? It seems that the only reason we 
couldn't now is that the disk partitioning tool didn't recognize the 
zfs partitions as valid.


Or am I completely off on a tangent here?

You're on the right track, but I think it would be
quite difficult to do without some changes to the
existing install software to get it to recognize a
pool and a dataset as a valid place to do the install.

When the build 62 community release is available
(soon, I hope, maybe today), I will test my modified
version of the install software with it and then make
that software available for download.

Lori



Malachi

On 4/10/07, *Lori Alt* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 
wrote:


Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Hello Lori,
>
>  Any chances to get 'how_to_netinstall_zfsboot' to public?
>
>
>
I'm really close to putting it out there.   I'm updating
the install procedure and tool to support two things
that it didn't support before:

*  setup of a dump slice, since zfs doesn't yet support
dumping into a zvol.  A zvol should be used for swap

*  splitting the Solaris name space into separate datasets
for root, /usr, /var, /opt and /export.  This is not required
at this time, but we are likely to require it, or at least
strongly recommend it, in the released version, because
it simplifies some liveupgrade issues.

Lori
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: a new heads-up

[Malachi de Ælfweald]

This may be a very stupid question, but

In the current procedure, we have to install onto UFS then convert the UFS
to ZFS...

During install, we can launch a terminal and run ZFS commands...

Would it be possible, doing a fresh install, to use the terminal to run some
ZFS commands and install directly onto the newly created zfs pools during
install with b62? It seems that the only reason we couldn't now is that the
disk partitioning tool didn't recognize the zfs partitions as valid.

Or am I completely off on a tangent here?

Malachi

On 4/10/07, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Hello Lori,
>
>  Any chances to get 'how_to_netinstall_zfsboot' to public?
>
>
>
I'm really close to putting it out there.   I'm updating
the install procedure and tool to support two things
that it didn't support before:

*  setup of a dump slice, since zfs doesn't yet support
dumping into a zvol.  A zvol should be used for swap

*  splitting the Solaris name space into separate datasets
for root, /usr, /var, /opt and /export.  This is not required
at this time, but we are likely to require it, or at least
strongly recommend it, in the released version, because
it simplifies some liveupgrade issues.

Lori
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: a new heads-up

[Lori Alt]

Robert Milkowski wrote:

Hello Lori,

 Any chances to get 'how_to_netinstall_zfsboot' to public?
 

  

I'm really close to putting it out there.   I'm updating
the install procedure and tool to support two things
that it didn't support before:

*  setup of a dump slice, since zfs doesn't yet support
   dumping into a zvol.  A zvol should be used for swap
  
*  splitting the Solaris name space into separate datasets

   for root, /usr, /var, /opt and /export.  This is not required
   at this time, but we are likely to require it, or at least
   strongly recommend it, in the released version, because
   it simplifies some liveupgrade issues.

Lori
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: a new heads-up

[Robert Milkowski]

Hello Lori,

 Any chances to get 'how_to_netinstall_zfsboot' to public?
 

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[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: a new heads-up

[Lori Alt]

It has been pointed out to me that if you have set up
a zfs boot configuration using the old-style prototype
code (where you had to have a ufs boot slice), and you
BFU that system with a version of the Solaris archives
that contain the new zfsboot support, your system will
panic.  So until we figure out a reasonable migration
path (and I'm not sure that one exists), assume that you
cannot bfu an old-style zfs boot setup.  You must do a
fresh install.

A formal "Heads-up" mail will go out later, but I wanted
to get the word out on this immediately.

Lori Alt

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