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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning     Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Live Upgrade (Planning)

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

9.  Live Upgrade (Examples)

10.  Live Upgrade (Command Reference)

Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool

11.  Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)

12.  Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

13.  Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

Migrating a UFS File System to a ZFS File System

How to Migrate a UFS File System to a ZFS File System

Creating a Boot Environment Within the Same ZFS Root Pool

How to Create a ZFS Boot Environment Within the Same ZFS Root Pool

Creating a Boot Environment In a New Root Pool

How to Create a Boot Environment on a New ZFS Root Pool

Creating a Boot Environment From a Source Other Than the Currently Running System

Falling Back to a ZFS Boot Environment

Additional Resources

14.  Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

B.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

C.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 13

Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

This chapter provides step-by-step procedures on how to create a ZFS boot environment when you use Live Upgrade, a feature of Oracle Solaris.


Note - Migrating from a UFS file system to a ZFS root pool or creating ZFS boot environments with Live Upgrade is new in the Solaris 10 10/08 release. To use Live Upgrade on a system with UFS file systems, see Part I, Upgrading With Live Upgrade of this book.


This chapter provides procedures for the following tasks:

For procedures on using ZFS when non-global zones are installed, see Chapter 14, Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed.