OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC 50
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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.'"
Am I missing something? (Score:4, Informative)
Honk! Honk! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:WTF is putback ? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:WTF is putback ? (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Am I missing something? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who cares about BSD... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Who cares about BSD... (Score:5, Informative)
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.