Ashish, I don't think that anyone is upset about the boot pool mirroring capabilities. It works as advertised. The bug in question (which has a documented workaround) is that a disk failure will prevent opensolaris from booting. Obviously, this isn't the idea situation since half of the mirror is still functioning.
That there is a workaround is good, but many adopters of OpenSolaris do not bother to read the outstanding bug list. Countless of times I see a post for help when they hit one these. For an official release, such as 2010.3 (2010.4?) will be, it would get an undeserved bad rep if something like this prevents it from booting for a user. I'm only saying that there are some outstanding issues that may delay the 2010.3 release. This is unfortunate and undesirable but totally understandable. >From my perspective, I'd prefer to wait for a solid release. Too many times, >I've had to juggle dev releases until I find one that doesn't have a >showstopper for a machine. One release broke the video driver, the next one >fixed that but generates zfs checksum errors, the next one fixed that but >broke XDMCP, and so on. This is why I support the notion of a critical fix repository, where security and other critical fixes can augment the official release repository, rather than doing the dev repository dance. Gary > I also use opensolaris to run Postfix with mirrored > disk. I hope you > all followed mirroring of rpool properly. It works > really well on my > 2009.06 opensolaris. > > > Ashish Nabira > Enterprise IT Architect > > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 7th floor , Prestige Obelisk, Kasturba Rd > Bangalore, KN 560025 IN > Phone x89854/+91 8066930 854 > Mobile +919845082183 > Email [email protected] > > > On 29-Mar-10, at 1:31 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > > On 03/29/10 08:48 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > >> There were some critical problems with 134, such > as not being able > >> to boot if one disk in a mirrored boot disk dies. > >> > > That's not good... I didn't know that. I have a > mirrored boot disk. > > I guess I've been living under a false sense of > security... > > > > It wasn't completely false, see > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bu > g_id=6923585 > > -- > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
