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In the next couple weeks I'll be installing Solaris 10 on a new Intel box that will be my
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I can find a lot of links from the 2005, 2006, and 2007 era about the effort needed to
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but I haven't had any luck tracking down what my ZFS options are these days, with
plain vanilla Solaris 10.
Can any part of the OS (e.g. /usr, /var) be created as ZFS at install time (I'll be doing an interactive install, and it doesn't matter to me whether I use the text-based or graphical installer)? Can / be zfs at install time?
I'll have two SATA II disks in the new workstation, so ideally I would like to mirror as much of the OS as possible.
Thanks,
Tim

alan.pae wrote:
If you search around enough you're bound to run across some recipe to boot Solaris 10 with ZFS support.I had seen old blog and other recipes for OpenSolaris on booting from ZFS, but I was specifically interested in what was available directly from a fresh install.
It looks like I'll just need to wait to install 10/08 to get the ZFS support I'm looking for.
Thanks to you and Glen for the responses!
Tim

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