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
> 
> 
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