Hi, > Our upgrade story isn't great right now. In the meantime, > you might check out Tim Haley's blog entry on using > bfu with zfs root.
thanks. But doesn't live upgrade just start the installer from the new OS DVD with the right options? Can't I just do that too? Cheers, Constantin > > http://blogs.sun.com/timh/entry/friday_fun_with_bfu_and > > lori > > Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a big fan of live upgrade. I'm also a big fan of ZFS boot. The >> latter is >> more important for me. And yes, I'm looking forward to both being >> integrated >> with each other. >> >> Meanwhile, what is the best way to upgrade a post-b61 system that is >> booted >> from ZFS? >> >> >> I'm thinking: >> >> 1. Boot from ZFS >> 2. Use Tim's excellent multiple boot datasets script to create a new >> cloned ZFS >> boot environment: >> http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/an_easy_way_to_manage >> 3. Loopback mount the new OS ISO image >> 4. Run the installer from the loopbacked ISO image in upgrade mode on >> the clone >> 5. Mark the clone to be booted the next time >> 6. Reboot into the upgraded OS. >> >> >> Questions: >> >> - How exactly do I do step 4? Before, luupgrade did everything for me, >> now >> what manpage do I need to do this? >> >> - Did I forget something above? I'm ok with losing some logfiles and >> stuff that >> maybe changed between the clone and the reboot, but is there >> anything else? >> >> - Did someone already blog about this and I haven't noticed yet? >> >> >> Cheers, >> Constantin >> >> > -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Marcel Schneider, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
