On Mon, 3 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
That's precisely the opposite of what I thought. Care to explain? If you have a primary OS disk, and you apply OS Updates ... in order to access those updates in Sol10, you need a registered account and login, with paid solaris support. Then, if you boot a removable hard disk, and you wish to apply updates to keep it at the same rev as the primary OS ... you've got to once again enter your Sol10 update download credentials, and I don't presume it works, or will always work for a 2nd installation of Sol10. Aren't you supposed to pay for support on each OS installation? Doesn't that mean you'd have to pay a separate support contract for the removable boot hard drive?
The Solaris 10 licensing situation has changed dramatically in recent months. It used to be that anyone was always eligible for security updates and the core kernel was always marked as a security update. Now the only eligibility for use of Solaris 10 is either via an existing service contract, or an interim 90-day period (with registration) intended for product evaluation. It is pretty common for the Solaris 10 installation from media to support an older version of zfs than the kernel now running on the system (which was updated via a patch). Due to the new Solaris 10 license and the potential need to download and apply a patch, issues emerge if this maintenance needs to be done after a service contract (or the 90-day eval entitlement) has expired. As a result, it is wise for Solaris 10 users to maintain a local repository of licensed patches in case their service contract should expire.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
