OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC

Derkjan de Haan writes "I am glad to see progress is being made on the the ability of OpenSolaris to boot from a ZFS filesystem: 'This putback provides the ability to boot the Solaris Operating System from a ZFS root file system on both x86 and SPARC platforms. Full ZFS boot and install support will be available in a subsequent build. Because of the phased putback, we recommend waiting for the full boot and install support rather than attempting to use the ZFS boot features separately.'"

Comments

Re:Am I missing something?

[nevali]

Given that it doesn't state OpenSolaris in the title, I clicked through to this hoping that support had been added to one of the BSDs.

OpenSolaris finally being able to boot from ZFS is cool, but⦠has dick-all to do with BSD :\

Re:Booting isn't so interesting

[TheRaven64]

The reason booting is important is twofold. First, it means that you can simplify your configuration by having all of all of your disks managed by the ZFS storage pool manager. Secondly, it means that you get all of the nice transactional features from ZFS on your boot partition. If you upgrade your kernel or some modules to a broken one (for example) then you can easily restore to a previous snapshot at the next boot.

Re:Who cares about BSD...

[swordgeek]

Whenever the Linux zealots feel like putting down the "one-True-Holy-license" pitchforks and start to implement it.

The code is out there. You're welcome to use it following the license under which it was released.