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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
4. Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
5. Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)
6. Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
7. Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
8. Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
10. Live Upgrade (Command Reference)
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
11. Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release
Introduction to Using Live Upgrade With ZFS
Migrating From a UFS File System to a ZFS Root Pool
Migrating From a UFS root (/) File System to ZFS Root Pool
Migrating a UFS File System With Solaris Volume Manager Volumes Configured to a ZFS Root File System
Creating a New Boot Environment From a ZFS Root Pool
Creating a New Boot Environment Within the Same Root Pool
Creating a New Boot Environment on Another Root Pool
Creating a New Boot Environment From a Source Other Than the Currently Running System
Creating a ZFS Boot Environment on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
12. Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
13. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
14. Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
B. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
Starting with the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 release, the ZFS file system has the following installation enhancements:
You can use the Live Upgrade luupgrade command to install a Flash Archive to a ZFS rooted alternate boot environment.
Unlike the ZFS Flash Archives in the previous releases, a Flash Archive created on a ZFS root master system does not contain all the existing boot environments. Instead, the archive only contains the active ZFS boot environment. The archive does not include those datasets that are excluded explicitly with the -D option of the lucreate command and the user data present in the top-level pool dataset. The swap and dump volumes are not included into the archive but are created when the Flash Archive is installed.
For more information on ZFS Flash Archives creation and installation , refer to Installing a ZFS Root File System (Oracle Solaris Flash Archive Installation) in Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.
You can use the -D option of the Live Upgrade lucreate command to create a separate dataset for /var when you migrate a UFS root file system to a ZFS root file system.
However, you cannot use the -D option to specify a separate dataset for any other OS critical file system other than /var. The /var file system is the only OS critical file system that is allowed to be a separate dataset in a ZFS root boot environment. The -D option is allowed only when the source boot environment has a UFS root and the target boot environment being created has a ZFS root.
For more information, refer to Migrating From a UFS root (/) File System to ZFS Root Pool.
For detailed instructions and limitations, see Chapter 5, Installing and Booting an Oracle Solaris ZFS Root File System, in Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.