On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:45 -0600, Lori Alt wrote: > oliver soell wrote: > > I just installed a mirrored root system last night, but using Tim Foster's > > zfs-actual-root-install.sh script on a clean install of b62 > > (http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling). > > > > You mention that no UFS slices are necessary using the patched DVD > > netinstall - is a dump slice still needed? > > > > It looks to me, from looking at Tim's script, like you end up with > the same swap/dump slice that you had when you initially installed > the system with a ufs root (the script doesn't appear to be > setting up a swap zvol). So if you used the manual procedure, > with or without Tim's script, it looks like you don't need to > create a dump slice. Though in that case, you're not exercising > the zvol as a swap device. > > If you use my netinstall kit: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/netinstall > > and set up your profile as recommended in the README, > you'll get a zvol as swap and a slice for dump (since we aren't > able to dump into a zvol yet.) >
Will we need to use this kit for further builds or will it be updated for new builds as they arrive? > Lori > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Thanks... Mike Dotson Area System Support Engineer - ACS West Phone: (503) 343-5157 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
