BJ Quinn wrote: >> Either way, whenever they integrate it into NV, it'll be in >> the next build of SXCE and should show up in OpenSolaris' >> dev repo shortly afterwards. > > Wait, does this mean that you could run the most recent version of > OpenSolaris at the time (i.e. 2009.06) and just update to the newest version > of ZFS from the dev repository? > > You'll have to excuse my Linux background, but filesystems typically aren't > the kind of thing you can update without updating the kernel itself. Never > thought of just updating the fs independent of the kernel... or have I > misunderstood something altogether?
When you 'pkg image-update' it will update everything consistently so the kernel is updated as well as all the matching commands and libraries. Unlike Linux the OpenSolaris kernel isn't separate but is part of the same source base as libc and many of the core commands. The builds in the /dev repository carefully lined up collection of all the source bases (consolidations) to form a build. There is on OpenSolaris equivalent to grabbing just the kernel source for Linux. -- Darren J Moffat
