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Preface

1.  Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (Introduction)

2.  Getting Started With Oracle Solaris ZFS

3.  Managing Oracle Solaris ZFS Storage Pools

4.  Installing and Booting an Oracle Solaris ZFS Root File System

Installing and Booting an Oracle Solaris ZFS Root File System (Overview)

ZFS Installation Features

Oracle Solaris Installation and Live Upgrade Requirements for ZFS Support

Oracle Solaris Release Requirements

General ZFS Root Pool Requirements

Disk Space Requirements for ZFS Root Pools

ZFS Root Pool Configuration Requirements

Installing a ZFS Root File System (Oracle Solaris Initial Installation)

How to Create a Mirrored ZFS Root Pool (Postinstallation)

Installing a ZFS Root File System (Oracle Solaris Flash Archive Installation)

Installing a ZFS Root File System ( JumpStart Installation)

JumpStart Keywords for ZFS

JumpStart Profile Examples for ZFS

JumpStart Issues for ZFS

Migrating to a ZFS Root File System or Updating a ZFS Root File System (Live Upgrade)

ZFS Migration Issues With Live Upgrade

Using Live Upgrade to Migrate or Update a ZFS Root File System (Without Zones)

Using Live Upgrade to Migrate or Upgrade a System With Zones (Solaris 10 10/08)

How to Migrate a UFS Root File System With Zone Roots on UFS to a ZFS Root File System (Solaris 10 10/08)

How to Configure a ZFS Root File System With Zone Roots on ZFS (Solaris 10 10/08)

How to Upgrade or Patch a ZFS Root File System With Zone Roots on ZFS (Solaris 10 10/08)

Using Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade to Migrate or Upgrade a System With Zones (at Least Solaris 10 5/09)

Supported ZFS with Zone Root Configuration Information (at Least Solaris 10 5/09)

How to Create a ZFS BE With a ZFS Root File System and a Zone Root (at Least Solaris 10 5/09)

How to Upgrade or Patch a ZFS Root File System With Zone Roots (at Least Solaris 10 5/09)

How to Migrate a UFS Root File System With a Zone Root to a ZFS Root File System (at Least Solaris 10 5/09)

Managing Your ZFS Swap and Dump Devices

Adjusting the Sizes of Your ZFS Swap Device and Dump Device

Customizing ZFS Swap and Dump Volumes

Troubleshooting ZFS Dump Device Issues

Booting From a ZFS Root File System

Booting From an Alternate Disk in a Mirrored ZFS Root Pool

SPARC: Booting From a ZFS Root File System

x86: Booting From a ZFS Root File System

Resolving ZFS Mount-Point Problems That Prevent Successful Booting (Solaris 10 10/08)

How to Resolve ZFS Mount-Point Problems

Booting for Recovery Purposes in a ZFS Root Environment

How to Boot ZFS Failsafe Mode

How to Boot ZFS From Alternate Media

Recovering the ZFS Root Pool or Root Pool Snapshots

How to Replace a Disk in the ZFS Root Pool

How to Create Root Pool Snapshots

How to Re-create a ZFS Root Pool and Restore Root Pool Snapshots

How to Roll Back Root Pool Snapshots From a Failsafe Boot

5.  Managing Oracle Solaris ZFS File Systems

6.  Working With Oracle Solaris ZFS Snapshots and Clones

7.  Using ACLs and Attributes to Protect Oracle Solaris ZFS Files

8.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Delegated Administration

9.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Advanced Topics

10.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Troubleshooting and Pool Recovery

11.  Recommended Oracle Solaris ZFS Practices

A.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Version Descriptions

Index

Chapter 4

Installing and Booting an Oracle Solaris ZFS Root File System

This chapter describes how to install and boot an Oracle Solaris ZFS root file system. Migrating a UFS root file system to a ZFS file system by using the Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade feature is also covered.

The following sections are provided in this chapter:

For a list of known issues in this release, see Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Release Notes.