Ellis, Mike wrote: > Thanks for the note and discussion jerry... > > I'm not a huge fan of LU (historical bagage on my part I guess) I recently > started seeing its use as a some sort of means to an end. > > The interesting thing is that what you're proposing here (which is much more > of an "patch-upgrade" than an "upgrade-update", appears to remove the "can't > have your zone-root on zfs" limitation. (You mentioned in a previous note > that this is how you were testing things) > > So while this method won't help with "actual os upgrades" the ability to use > zfs to assist with offline patching, migration to newer-patched servers, and > zfs-snap/clone based backouts is ubelievably HUGE. Anyone who is rolling > zones in prod will happily attest to that I think. Please let us know if you > need any customer support to adjust any priorities etc surrounding this > project.
Mike, Thanks for your comments. On the team, we all realize that there is a lot of value with this capability. I don't think I need any customer support per se. I have been working on prototyping this and I do have a working prototype although I still need to do a bit more work on it. Perhaps something that would be helpful at some point is to have people try the prototype out in their own environments and give us feedback. Although this doesn't seem to warrant a full blown opensolaris project, being able to work together with interested folks on this would be beneficial. I think I should probably get the ARC review done before we start doing that, in case there are issues in the ARC review that we need to address first. Thanks, Jerry
