On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:08 -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +0000, Moritz Willers wrote: > > > >> The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard > >> and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own. 'zpool import -f > >> rpool' to take ownership, reboot and it all worked no problem (which > >> was amazing in itself as I had switched from AMD to Intel ...). > > > > Do I understand correctly if I read this as: OpenSolaris is able to > > switch between systems without reinstalling? Just a zfs import -f and > > everything runs? Wow, that would be an improvemment and would make > > things more like *BSD/linux. > > Solaris has been able to do that for 20+ years. Why do you think > it should be broken now?
Because, like I said, I always understood it was very difficult to change disks to another system and run the installed solaris version on that new hardware. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7 5/09 | OpenSolaris 2010.02 b129 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
