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OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC
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timothy
on Sun Apr 20, 2008 02:17 PM
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from the devilish-wings-spread-wider dept.
Derkjan de Haan writes "I am glad to see progress is being made on the the ability of OpenSolaris to boot from a ZFS filesystem: 'This putback provides the ability to boot the Solaris Operating System from a ZFS root file system on both x86 and SPARC platforms. Full ZFS boot and install support will be available in a subsequent build. Because of the phased putback, we recommend waiting for the full boot and install support rather than attempting to use the ZFS boot features separately.'"
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OpenSolaris finally being able to boot from ZFS is cool, but⦠has dick-all to do with BSD
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Honk! Honk! (Score:5, Informative)
Booting isn't so interesting (Score:4, Interesting)
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Who cares about BSD... (Score:3, Interesting)
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As to when Linux will get support for ZFS, it requires one of two things to happen. Either Linux developers need to do a clean-room reimplementation of ZFS, or they need to modify their license to one that isn't incompatible with many other Free Software licenses , including the CDDL.
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Or Linux needs to get user mode filesystems up to the point you can store your mission-critical data on them.
ZFS has been written ported to linux, I tried it last year but one of my tests was to pull power to the drive while it was mounted (but not doing anything) I lost all data on the drive beyond (easy) recovery. My conclusion, it isn't ready for use on a Linux server yet.
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FUSE is quite stable. It's ZFS FUSE that's unstable.
-:sigma.SB
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The problem is the current linux implmenetation of ZFS-FUSE.
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Except on fuse either when Sun goes GPL 2, or when both Sun and Linux goes GPL 3, or if Linux stop being GPL at all but uhm, yeah right
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The code is out there. You're welcome to use it following the license under which it was released.
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a 'putback' is just a formal way to submit your updated source code to a source code control system (what is called a 'gate').
and in fact, the matching command is (yes, you guessed it) 'bringover'. seriously, it is.
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Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it JBigMac.
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[ot] *BSD is Dying (Score:2)
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SunOS was BSD. Solaris is AT&T. See Wikipedia or something for the details of Sun's confusing naming and numbering scheme.