It does bring up the big question.. how will customers migrate from S10 to OpenSolaris? Or is it a "tough luck" situation and customers have to do a painfully manual upgrade? I mean if SVR4 pkgs go away, that kinda leaves Solaris on a isolated island. There are plenty of things that still need to be sorted out in the Indiana tree before the ties can be cut.
Does anyone know if S10 will be the last Solaris release? If so, there has to be more thought around how to migrate customers and users to OpenSolaris. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Gary Gendel <g...@genashor.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 8:57:03 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans Glynn, Thanks for the heads up, I don't think any of are completely surprised. I hope careful thought will be given to step-by-step instructions on how to get from where we are to where we should be without a long downtime. I'd hate to think we will need half a day per machine because we have to start from scratch. For example, I have a SOHO server that has a UFS root partition and a zfs mirrored pool on each drive. Liveupgrade allowed minimal downtime in this configuration which has been running since snv_49. It seems that the way to do right now would be to split the mirror, load 2009.2 on one disk, mount the old root and zfs pool and copy what is needed to the new drive, unmount and then mirror and resilver the old drive. This sound like a very scary proposition. The other way would be to install from scratch and then bring stuff in from a backup, which is just as scary. I was reserving this nonsense for a disaster recovery, not an upgrade. Gary -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
