Transitioning From Oracle® Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11.2

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Updated: December 2014
 
 

File System Changes

The file systems in Oracle Solaris 11 are very similar to Oracle Solaris 10 file systems. The following table describes the file systems that are supported in this release.

Table 5-1  File Systems That Are Supported in Oracle Solaris 11
File System Type
Supported File Systems
Disk-based file systems
HSFS, PCFS, UDFS, UFS, and ZFS
Network-Based file systems
NFS and SMB
Virtual file systems
CTFS, FIFOFS, MNTFS, NAMEFS
OBJFS, SHAREFS, SPECFS, and SWAPFS
Temporary file system
TMPFS
Loopback file system
LOFS
Process file system
PROCFS

    The general file system differences are as follows:

  • CacheFS is not available in Oracle Solaris 11.

  • ZFS is the default root file system.

  • UFS is a supported legacy file system, but it is not supported as a bootable root file system.

  • The legacy Solaris Volume Manager product is supported, but you cannot boot from a Solaris Volume Manager root device.

  • ZFS uses a separate ZFS volume for swap and dump devices. UFS can use a single slice for both swap and dump devices.

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