Finally! ZFS root has been in Indiana (aka OpenSolaris 2008.05) for a while, but I prefer Solaris Express. As of build 90, it’s supported by the installer. I installed it on my crappy P4 test box : 1Gb Ram, twin 40Gb disks. Burn the DVD ISO and boot it if you want to play [...]
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ZFS, Leopard and baseless speculation
Just upgraded my work mac to Leopard. Took an hour, worked flawlessly. Of course, the first thing I did was stick in a USB stick with holds half a zpool from my Solaris Express box at home: planb:~ $ zpool import pool: sticky id: 4692054964394431575 state: FAULTED status: The pool is formatted using an incompatible [...]
ZFS rolling snapshots
I’ve got more zones than I know what to do with now, but they’re all interdependant. I need to snapshot them all at the same time if I want to be able to rollback consistently. Since it’s a backup it needs as few moving parts as possible. I’m really more of a perl guy As [...]
