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Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide
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Preface

1.  Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (Introduction)

2.  Getting Started With Oracle Solaris ZFS

3.  Oracle Solaris ZFS and Traditional File System Differences

4.  Managing Oracle Solaris ZFS Storage Pools

5.  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 Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade Requirements for ZFS Support

Oracle Solaris Release Requirements

General ZFS Storage Pool Requirements

Disk Space Requirements for ZFS Storage Pools

ZFS Storage Pool Configuration Requirements

Installing a ZFS Root File System (Initial Installation)

How to Create a Mirrored Root Pool (Post Installation)

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

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

JumpStart Keywords for ZFS

JumpStart Profile Examples for ZFS

JumpStart Issues for ZFS

Migrating a UFS Root File System to a ZFS Root File System (Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade)

ZFS Migration Issues With Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade

Using Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade to Migrate to a ZFS Root File System (Without Zones)

Using Oracle Solaris 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)

ZFS Support for Swap and Dump Devices

Adjusting the Sizes of Your ZFS Swap Device and Dump Device

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 Recreate a ZFS Root Pool and Restore Root Pool Snapshots

How to Roll Back Root Pool Snapshots From a Failsafe Boot

6.  Managing Oracle Solaris ZFS File Systems

7.  Working With Oracle Solaris ZFS Snapshots and Clones

8.  Using ACLs to Protect Oracle Solaris ZFS Files

9.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Delegated Administration

10.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Advanced Topics

11.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Troubleshooting and Pool Recovery

A.  Oracle Solaris ZFS Version Descriptions

Index

Chapter 5

Installing and Booting an Oracle Solaris ZFS Root File System

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

The following sections are provided in this chapter:

For a list of known issues in this release, see Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release Notes.

For up-to-date troubleshooting information, go to the following site:

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide