Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-31 Thread Chris Beal
very cool :-) Timothy Haley wrote: Chris Beal wrote: That's great to hear. I think zfs boot and live upgrade like technology would be incredibly powerful for managing risk in a production environment. (and patching would become easier too) Chris This afternoon I did a little experiment

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-31 Thread Tim Foster
Hi All, On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:33 +0100, Tim Foster wrote: (replying to myself, I know, I know) Yep - I'll be working this weekend on updating the previous mountrootadm.sh script that I wrote when the previous ZFS Mountroot (ufs boot + a quick switcheroo to zfs root) solution was being

[zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Wang
HI all, Recently zfs boot is delivered in scheduled b62, so is there any words when and how may we use live upgrade with zfs root? Since I only use SXCR now and sometimes you just need to boot to older BE in case of a no-so-good build, live upgrade becomes very handy for me on that. Cheers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Lori Alt
Regrettably, LiveUpgrade is basically clueless when it comes to zfs right now. It doesn't understand the concepts of pools and datasets (and how they differ from file systems on slices) at all. That code hasn't been implemented yet. It's something we're working on. So for now, LU won't be of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Brian Hechinger
I've been going over this in my mind as I don't currently use LU yet, and this sort of stuff is getting me to hold off. While LU might not work yet, you can always do a snapshot before the BFU/upgrade and then roll back to that if things break, which isn't completely LU, but it does give you the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Lori Alt
One more response to this: See Tim Foster's blog for some procedures for doing some LU-like management of bootable datasets: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling - Lori Ivan Wang wrote: HI all, Recently zfs boot is delivered in scheduled b62, so is there

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Brian, Friday, March 30, 2007, 6:06:26 PM, you wrote: BH I've been going over this in my mind as I don't currently use BH LU yet, and this sort of stuff is getting me to hold off. BH While LU might not work yet, you can always do a snapshot before BH the BFU/upgrade and then roll back to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Tim Foster
hey folks, Lori Alt wrote: See Tim Foster's blog for some procedures for doing some LU-like management of bootable datasets: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling Yep - I'll be working this weekend on updating the previous mountrootadm.sh script that I wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Beal
That's great to hear. I think zfs boot and live upgrade like technology would be incredibly powerful for managing risk in a production environment. (and patching would become easier too) Chris Lori Alt wrote: Regrettably, LiveUpgrade is basically clueless when it comes to zfs right now. It

Re: [zfs-discuss] Live Upgrade with zfs root?

2007-03-30 Thread Timothy Haley
Chris Beal wrote: That's great to hear. I think zfs boot and live upgrade like technology would be incredibly powerful for managing risk in a production environment. (and patching would become easier too) Chris This afternoon I did a little experiment with a cloned zfs root and bfu. Poor