>Beleive me, I understand the wins from using ZFS. Using it for root 
>probably has benefits I haven't even imagined yet. I am looking forward 
>to playing with that to be sure. But I think it might be short sighted 
>to expect all of Sun's customers to adoopt 'ZFS on root' in order to be 
>able touse Solaris 11.

I would think so too.  Also, this would seem to preclude any form of
upgrade from Solaris 10 or earlier (no ZFS root)

The step from not allowing something to requiring something in one release
it just too big.

>In the ZFS world updating a live BE won't require a seperate BE to 
>update, but I hope the notion of seperate BE's doesn't diappear, for the 
>dual booting funtionalty. without truely seperate areas of the disk, I 
>can't keep S10 and SNV easily (well I can go back to switching in OBP on 
>SPARC but...) S10 won't understand ZFS.

So your question is, can I have multiple bootable ZFS pools?

Casper

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