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Clone your ZFS root file system with one easy command

In their latest release Nexenta added support for ZFS boot. I also wrote an article about how to clone and boot another ZFS file system. The process is quite simple but it still contains a number of steps.
To make things even easier I decided to write a script to automate the process. This can be […]

July 17th, 2007 | Posted in Boot, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Scripts, Solaris, zfs | 5 Comments

Playing with ZFS boot on Nexenta

I recently wrote about the newly released NexentaCP. One of the new great features is the integrated ZFS boot in the installer. You can now get a ZFS boot capable system with no work at all.
The default installation of Nexenta will create a ZFS pool called syspool and your root file system will be called […]

June 25th, 2007 | Posted in Boot, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, VMware, zfs | No Comments