Solaris 10: now to put zones on the damn thing.

[reddragdiva]

hauntedunix's suggestion worked: mount the /var zpool as legacy. All hail!

The trick now is that the system won't install zones properly. The zone creates okay, verifies as installable, when I go to install it installs 3 packages and of course won't boot. This is because, desperate for space on Friday, I cleared all that faff out of /var/sadm/pkg ... which is where zone packages are installed from. D'oh!

So today I tried jumpstarting it. And IT appear to have set up the network so stuff won't tftpboot. ARGH. Tomorrow we make an appointment to go down to the server room and ... put the 10u8 SPARC DVD in the drive.

It's been a learning experience.

Oh, and the Solaris 10u8 i386 VirtualBox image that Sun heartily encourages everyone to download and try is a dysfunctional piece of complete dogshit that seems to have been put together with the express aim of warning people off Solaris.

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[xlerb.livejournal.com]

There are regular exchanges of the form 'What d'you mean ZFS doesn't do (x)? I thought it was a Netapp killer. Everyone says so

Also, RAID-Z is full of goodness and light and bunnies and is like RAID except better in every way and will solve every problem in the world…

…except the ones involving lots of small files.