Solaris 9 8/03 Release

The following list describes new features and changes to this book for the Solaris 9 8/03 release.

• Solaris Live Upgrade provides new enhancements for this Solaris release.

  • Solaris Live Upgrade uses Solaris Volume Manager technology to create a duplicate boot environment that contains file systems with RAID-1 volumes (mirrors). The mirror provides data redundancy for any file systems including the root (/) file system. With the lucreate command, you can create mirrored file systems that contain up to three submirrors.

    For an overview, see Creating a Boot Environment With Mirrored File Systems. For procedures, see To Create a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) (Command-Line Interface).

  • When creating a boot environment with the lucreate command, you can customize the content of files and directories that are copied. You can exclude some files and directories that would normally be copied from the original boot environment. If you have excluded a directory, you can also include specified files and subdirectories under that directory. For planning information, see Customizing a New Boot Environment's Content. For procedures, see To Create a Boot Environment and Customize the Content (Command-Line Interface).

  • A Solaris Flash differential archive can now be installed on a clone system by using Solaris Live Upgrade. To install a differential archive by using Solaris Live Upgrade, see To Create a Profile to be Used by Solaris Live Upgrade.

• You can now use the JumpStart installation method to create an empty boot environment when you install the Solaris operating environment. The empty boot environment can then populated with a Solaris Flash archive.

• Minor changes were made to fix bugs.