> >> a) possible to start from a raidz pool?
> >
> > No. At this point raidz pool is not usable as a boot pool.
>
> Is this possible then to use a mirror pool?
Yes (to some extent). You can use one disk/slice or a mirror.
2. Prepare the disk for a ZFS rootpool. A rootpool can be a single
disk device, or a device slice, or in a mirrored configuration. If
you use a whole disk for a rootpool, you must use a slice notation
(e.g. c0d0s0) so that it is labeled with an SMI label.
I don't think you can use multiple mirrors (striped mirrors).
> > Generally speaking there is no patch to get your system from any 5.x
> > release
> > to 5.x+1 release. You may, however, upgrade your current system from
> > SunOS 5.10 to Nevada using regular LiveUpgrade or DeadUpgrade(TM)
> > procedure.
> >
> > (I would just install from scratch - assuming you have all your valuable
> > data stored externally or on exportable zpool)
> >
> So to get this right:
> Nevada == Solaris Express?!
Sort of.
Nevada is the development code name for the next version of Solaris,
currently under development.
Solaris Express is a bootable, runnable snapshot of that development.
Sometimes features that go into Nevada are backported to already
released versions of Solaris (like ZFS was). It is possible that the
rootpool stuff will be someday. But I doubt that would happen before
the installer work to support rootpool is complete.
> This is a little bit confusing.
> I am very glad Ian Murdock joined Sun. Hopefully system upgrade will be
> as easy as apt-get dist-upgrade.
> Is there any easy way to just get the latest solaris kernel via web?
The source is always available, but you can't necessarily just compile a
new kernel and plop it into place and expect it to work.
If you want an installable version of Solaris Express, go here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/
You can get a CD or DVD version. Note that the installable ISOs lag a
bit from the source. Right now when I look, the ISOs are at build 61.
You'd need to wait for build 62 for the rootfs support mentioned.
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