On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:31 +1000, "Malcolm Herbert" <opensolaris.org at mjch.net> wrote: > I want to be able to deploy a Flash archive onto a host configured as a > ZFS root host ... unfortunately this fails for some reason.
Thanks to Greg Boug, Jean-Paul Blaquiere, Geoff Lloyd, Boyd Adamson, Nathan Kroenert and Alan Chalmers. Jean-Paul and Geoff mentioned that there were patches available - Jean-Paul gave me their numbers plus some other supporting documentation (such as it is): 119534-15 SunOS 5.10: Flash Archive Patch 124630-26 SunOS 5.10: System Administration Applications, Network, and Core Libraries Patch (now 124630-28) Draft documentation here - http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/flash/ some discussion at - http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org/msg26993.html Note that there are caveats - flarcreate creates flash archive of whole of rpool and the result can only be installed into another ZFS root host. No differential Flash Archive support, no installs into other Boot Environments plus one or two other operational niggles (some users report oddness after installation) Haven't yet had a chance to download these, but they look promising ... thanks again to all who responded ... :) Regards, Malcolm -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally mjch at mjch.net left blank
