* Richard L. Hamilton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > * Dave Snowdon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've downloaded the 2008.05 release of Open Solaris > > and am planning to > > > install it on a spare machine and use it as a NAS > > for my local network > > > with all the data I care about stored on a ZFS > > RAIDZ pool. I used to > > > use Solaris a few years ago but I've never set up > > ZFS before. > > > > > > As I understand it booting from ZFS and using ZFS > > for the root > > > filesystem is not currently supported out of the > > box at the moment so > > > I'll need to use the standard filesystem for that. > > > > Your data is out of date :-) OpenSolaris 2008.05 > > *only* supports ZFS > > for the root/boot filesystem. Right out of the box. > > Solaris Express > > ommunity Edition starting with build 91 supports both > > ZFS and UFS > > root/boot filesystems (just for completeness sake). > > 91? Thought the 90 I just downloaded and meant to install soon > was going to do it (SPARC, although I'd read it'd do both).
Yep, my mistake (too many dang builds). Build 90 has support for installing ZFS as a root filesystem. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
