[geeks] FYI - OpenSolaris 2008.05 released

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:21:11PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Meanwhile, what's the wisdom on disk usage for current Solaris 10?  Does it 
>> too support ZFS boot, or do I need a non-ZFS root to boot from?  The 
>> machine in question has 12 300GB SATA disks and no separate boot disk. 
>> There's a bay I could put one into, an available power connector, and I 
>> have various extra disks, but I'd need to add a controller for it too.
> 
> ZFS boot isn't in the non-express/developer releases yet.

OK, that's what I thought.  So I need to either grab a disk (or a couple 
of mirrored slices) for boot, or install a separate boot disk and 
controller.  Which possibly means juggling to make sure the right 
controllers get used in the right order...


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