I'll raise my hand then, with one vote to say it's worth it! ;) My company has some high hopes of standardizing on Update 6 with ZFS root, but it may be a tough sell if that means we have to go back to package-based installations. We spent a large portion of 2008 getting a very efficient and automated provisioning process for deploying our Solaris 10 standard operating environement images using Flash Archive, and we really hope we can move to ZFS and leave the process mostly intact.
Plus, isn't S11 slated for 2010? That's an awfully long time to wait to have this bolted on. Thanks! -Matt On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Lori Alt <Lori.Alt at sun.com> wrote: > 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. > > Lori > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20081203/f7f5c5eb/attachment.html>
