ZFS Boot Support Binding Change [PSARC/2008/301 Self Review]

Lori Alt Lori.Alt at Sun.COM
Wed May 7 10:52:39 PDT 2008


No, it does not.  It is necessary to take explicit
action to install a system with a zfs root file system,
either interactively or with Jumpstart or with LiveUpgrade.

Lori

Tim Marsland wrote:
> Just so I'm clear, does this case (or some other case) change the
> *default* root filesystem in Solaris 10 updates?
>
> tim
>
> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>> Mark A. Carlson wrote:
>>> Right. If ZFS was claiming that it was *not* going for POSIX 
>>> compliance, then
>>> we would have an architectural issue.
>>>
>>> I see this as advice to the C-Team to not allow integration until 
>>> the bugs
>>> are fixed.
>>>
>>
>> I suggest that this issue is more complicated that "just obey the 
>> standard",
>> and that preventing ZFS root support from going into S10 because of this
>> issue is mis-guided, to say the least.
>>
>> - Bart
>>
>>




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