On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > This is incorrect. All S10 updates have supported upgrading systems > with zones. I believe what you are thinking of is that live-upgrade > does not support upgrading systems with zones. This is being > fixed in the next S10 update. It is already fixed in nevada.
Gotcha; thanks for the clarification. > That is the only real reason. The only other reason I know of > is fairly obscure. The patch tools don't know about zfs so they > can miscalculate space when you have a set of zones, each on > their own zfs dataset, but in the same zpool. If you were really > tight on space, the patch process might fail partway through as a > result. This is probably not an issue for most people but is > the only other one I know of. Excellent; disk space won't be an issue for me, nor will the non-live-upgradability, so I'll be putting my zone roots on ZFS. Much obliged! -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
