Erast Benson wrote:
> I'm looking into it.
> 
> I thought that since major feature in NCP is ZFS-enabled system pool, it 
> would also make sense to do system upgrades using ZFS-cloned 
> filesystems, so at the end of the process, user will have an option to 
> destroy clone and try again, promote it and keep as separate option in 
> the GRUB or just promote and accept it as a default syspool/rootfs.

this would be cool, but I'm not sure we are able to boot create GRUB 
boot entry without actually modifying the properties of the root pool, 
see also http://martinman.net/2007/06/26/apt-get-snapshot-on-nexenta/. 
Note that I actually haven't looked at that, so it might be possible...

> Anyway, to implement the above, we need to make sure that chroot type of 
> upgrade actually works...

yup, it should still boot ;-) even without ZFS...

thx,
Martin
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