On 12/03/08 12:20, Dave Miner wrote: > Matt Walburn wrote: > >> install-discuss, >> >> Now that we've finally got support for ZFS root filesystems on Solaris >> 10, I was wondering if anyone knows what the status is for ZFS Flash >> Archive. Presumably it would use ZFS send/receive functionality, but is >> rolling that into Flash Archive something that's on the roadmap? >> >> > > We expect in later versions of Caiman (and thus OpenSolaris) to provide > a replacement, I guess, for the Flash functionality. There's been > kibitzing around using ZFS snapshots instead of cpio archives for such a > thing, but nothing concrete. > > For Solaris 10, I don't presently expect any work of that nature to be done. > > > I'll confirm that. At this time, no work is planned to implement Flash Archives for zfs root file systems in S10. That doesn't mean it won't happen. It just isn't a committed project. There's considerable internal debate going on right now on whether it's worth doing and if so, who should do it.
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