[geeks] Pure ZFS machine - possible?

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Thu Nov 9 14:19:57 CST 2006


On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Mark Benson wrote:

> I am experimenting with ZFS and Solaris 10 06/06 on UltraSPARC
> machines (all pure sun4u architecture) and I want to know if, with
> the existing installer for Solaris 10, it is possible to build a ZFS
> Zpool during the install had have it use that in preference to the
> conventional partitioned file system. This would result in
> essentially creating a machine with a near infinite root storage
> system, as well as all the plusses of using ZFS.
>

My understanding is that you cannot yet boot off of ZFS.

--Patrick



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