> From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:07 PM > > On Sat, 1 May 2010, Peter Tribble wrote: > >> > >> With the new Oracle policies, it seems unlikely that you will be > able to > >> reinstall the OS and achieve what you had before. > > > > And what policies have Oracle introduced that mean you can't > reinstall > > your system? > > The main concern is that you might not be able to get back the same OS > install you had before due to loss of patch access after your service > contract has expired and Oracle arbitrarily decided not to grant you a > new one.
It's as if you didn't even read this thread. In the proposed answers to Euan's question, there is no need to apply any patches, or to have any service contract. As long as you still have your OS install CD, or *any* OS install CD, you install a throw-away OS, just for the sake of letting the installer create the partitions, boot record, boot properties, etc... And then you immediately obliterate and overwrite rpool, using your backup image. Since this restoration process puts the filesystem back into the exact state it was before failure ... All the patches you previously had are restored, and everything is restored just as it was before crash. There is nothing anywhere which indicates any reason you couldn't do this, even in the future. So you're totally spreading BS on this one. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
