Martin Man wrote: > > > 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...
should be possible. See usage for $ZFS-BOOTFS GRUB variable. >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
