To me, it seems obvious that there are likely to be many people waiting for ZFS root support in the installer.
I've added the following text to a page on genunix about the current state of play with ZFS root. Please feel free to use all, any or indeed none of it on http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/ : Support for installing Solaris into a ZFS root was integrated into build 90 of Nevada. To do this, you need to use either the text mode installer, or JumpStart. Since both the Solaris installer and JumpStart are closed source, you can only get your hands on them when the binaries are released by Sun. For most people this means the fortnightly DVD and CD images. Based on past release dates, build 90 of Nevada should be available on DVD and CD at around 9th June 2008. OpenSolaris version 2008.05, which is a different operating system than Solaris Nevada, based on the same common code base ''does'' have support for installing to a root ZFS filesystem. However, because it is based on build 86 of Nevada it does not contain key bug fixes which prevent the system from locking up under certain circumstances. If you need a solid, reliable system with a ZFS root, it would be best to wait for the Nevada build 90 DVD/CD images to be released. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
