[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[elw at stderr.org]

> I might have missed something here. Has ZFS been released to public
> (production) usage? I dont think I saw it included on my Solaris 10 (11/06)


zfs has been out for quite some time, introduced (backported) to older 
builds of s10 by a kernel patch around update 2 (or maybe *in* U2 - I 
can't remember right now.).


> DVDs. Is it available for install on root/boot disk? Or is it just 
> available on Sun Express CDs / OpenSolaris CDs? If so let me know, so I 
> can download that and have a look and play with it.


zfs in s10 does not yet work for boot/root.  it can work for those 
purposes with opensolaris, however.  there is copious documentation 
available as to how to set that up.

--e


> On 8/1/07, elw at stderr.org <elw at stderr.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 1. Better Sun Volume Manager acsii gui if not normal X gui. It will be
>>> pathetic to see command line based SVM for desktops. Also the formatting
>>> of the ouput sucks compared to vxprint or vxdisk list.
>>
>> Folks really should be transitioning to ZFS rather than trying to sustain
>> use of SVM, in my honest opinion.
>>
>> ZFS is *much* easier to deal with, even for very nontechnical users.
>>
>> --elijah
>>
>