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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 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

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

10.  Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)

11.  Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

12.  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

13.  Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Live Upgrade Command Reference

B.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

C.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

D.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 12

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.


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 find out how 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 13, Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed.