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From: cindy on 26 Jan 2010 15:29
On Jan 26, 10:50 am, Sven Hilmer <shil...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Michael Laajanen wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I have never done a flash archive but thinking of it now since I have do
> > install a number of systems x number of times.
>
> > But I read somewhere that one can not do flash archive when the roor
> > filesystem is ZFS, is that true?
>
> > /michael
>
> it depends:
> until Solaris 10 u7 (5/09) it's true.
> beginning from release u8 (10/09) you can create a flash archive from a
> ZFS (regardless if root pool or not) and unpack a flash archive onto a
> ZFS including root pool.
>
> Sven

If you are referring the Flash archive features that are included in
the Solaris 10 10/09
release, then yes, you can create a Flash archive of a ZFS root pool.
You cannot create
a Flash archive of a non-root pool. See this doc for more information:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/zfsboot-1?a=view

Thanks,

Cindy
From: Michael Laajanen on 26 Jan 2010 17:49
Hi,

cindy wrote:
> On Jan 26, 10:50 am, Sven Hilmer <shil...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Michael Laajanen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have never done a flash archive but thinking of it now since I have do
>>> install a number of systems x number of times.
>>> But I read somewhere that one can not do flash archive when the roor
>>> filesystem is ZFS, is that true?
>>> /michael
>> it depends:
>> until Solaris 10 u7 (5/09) it's true.
>> beginning from release u8 (10/09) you can create a flash archive from a
>> ZFS (regardless if root pool or not) and unpack a flash archive onto a
>> ZFS including root pool.
>>
>> Sven
>
> If you are referring the Flash archive features that are included in
> the Solaris 10 10/09
> release, then yes, you can create a Flash archive of a ZFS root pool.
> You cannot create
> a Flash archive of a non-root pool. See this doc for more information:
>
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/zfsboot-1?a=view
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cindy
Greate, I will check that in the morning back office.

Thanks

/michael
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