If you are keen to play around with ZFS, you can also assign a partition on a
disk to ZFS. So you could do some thing like this:
Disk0
slice 0 / 10G
slice 1 swap 1G
slice 7 assigned to ZFS
Disk1
slice 7 assigned to ZFS
That way you could mirror your home dir on a ZFS pool, do snapshots...etc.,
Solaris currently does not support running from a ZFS / (root) file system.
There are hacks one can pull to do this, but currently it can only be done on
an OpenSolaris distro (like Nevada or Solaris Express) and not on Solaris
proper.
Work to get the Solaris kernel booting off of a ZFS file sy