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OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC

Posted by timothy on from the devilish-wings-spread-wider dept.

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.'"

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  1. Booting isn't so interesting by bhima · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think booting from ZFS is all that interesting. I think expanding a RAID-Z pool is far more interesting: http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/expand_o_matic_raid_z

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  2. Who cares about BSD... by Marcion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... when does Linux get ZFS?

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    1. Re:Who cares about BSD... by aliquis · · Score: 2, Interesting

      http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/

      Except on fuse either when Sun goes GPL 2, or when both Sun and Linux goes GPL 3, or if Linux stop being GPL at all but uhm, yeah right ..