[zfs-discuss] Bootable ZFS and Live upgrade

[Eric Schrock]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:17AM +0900, Boyd Adamson wrote:
> Just a quick question that occurred to me in the shower this morning,
> 
> Once booting from ZFS is supported, are there plans to support live  
> upgrade using clones? This would be analogous to the current process  
> of splitting an SVM mirror for live upgrade, but with all the  
> advantages of ZFS.

Yep, this is in the plans.  Besides the obvious changes to the install
and upgrade tools, we need ZFS support for 'clone swap' (6276916), which
would allow you to take a clone and make it the active filesystem,
switching places with the other. 

We think the idea is pretty cool too ;-)

- Eric

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