On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aubrey Li wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>>> >>>> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> for windows we use ghost to backup system and >>>>> >>>> >>>> recovery. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS? >>>>> >>>> >>>> How about flar ? >>>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=v >>>> iew >>>> [ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs >>>> root though ] >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> tim >>>> >>> >>> Oops, forgot about that one... >>> >>> >>> >> >> If I recall correctly, flar is not supported on OpenSolaris 200805 >> release. >> >> Thanks, >> -Aubrey >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > > I'm pretty sure that OpenSolaris 2008.5 is the same a Nevada b89, which > definite _does_ have flar.
No, OpenSolaris 200805 is based on b86, not b89. And if you read indiana mailing list, you'll know flar is not supported. > I'm not 100% sure you can get the "install from flash archive" as an option > when using the X-based installer; but it should be available when using the > text-based one. > > flar doesn't care what the underlying filesystem is. However, the support > tools in the installer do care, since flar is run after the filesystem has > been laid out and created. > Your description about zfs send/receive to a bare metal system sounds interesting to me. I'd like to have a try. Thanks, -Aubrey _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
