Solarix booting from ZFS?
Solarix booting from ZFS?
Posted Jul 25, 2007 1:57 UTC (Wed) by pjdc (guest, #6906)In reply to: Solarix booting from ZFS? by zooko
Parent article: Interview with Con Kolivas (APC)
Solaris x86 uses grub and an initrd-like arrangement ("boot archive"), so I guess they just sling the zfs junk in there.
Posted Jul 25, 2007 2:47 UTC (Wed)
by pjdc (guest, #6906)
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Posted Jul 25, 2007 16:03 UTC (Wed)
by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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It's pretty difficult to find, you have to go to cvs.opensolaris.org and search for 'zfs', and scroll down a bit. Really obscure..
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Posted Jul 25, 2007 21:16 UTC (Wed)
by akumria (guest, #7773)
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Indeed. I believe they use Sun GPLv2 ZFS code to do so.
Of course that can't be the whole story. Grub still needs to read the boot archive somehow. The Solaris 10 box I have access to doesn't seem to have a /boot/grub/zfs_stage1_5, but I do get a whopping three hit on Google for "zfs_stage1_5".Solarix booting from ZFS?
Solarix booting from ZFS?
Solarix booting from ZFS?
Grub still needs to read the boot archive somehow.