I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting on each Build release, but snv_121 is a pretty important one. Several good things have converged, such as Crossbow fixes, ZFS improvements and bug fixes, some more COMSTAR goodness and now xVM 3.3 integration. I’m excited and would love to see lots of testing on this release from the community. Check it out! This is, in my mind, a milestone release.
Ben,
With the impending switchover to OSOL from SXCE is it a bad idea to keep upgrading machines with SXCE? What if the OSOL release uses an earlier version of ZFS? Then the ZFS drives will be rejected, right?
Gary
ZFS upgrades aren’t automatic at last check, and as long as you an OpenSolaris release of the same build number, you won’t have a concern anyway.
Shawn,
That is my understanding too. However, OSOL was always a few releases behind SXCE. For example, If SXCE were abandoned today, it would be awhile before OSOL caught up with 121. This was the thrust of my question… Should we be a few versions ahead and be caught offguard in October?
That said, I have my SOHO server (email, web, dns, nas) that has been happily running SXDE/CE since build 39ish (using Live Upgrade). I’d really like a clear migration path to OSOL for the SXCE EOL without having to start from scratch. Specifically, I’d like to move from my UFS root (LU) partitions to ZFS boot and reclaim the UFS partions, install IPS, and then just to an “upgrade all” to OSOL. It really scares me to think that I may need a week to bring up OSOL anew and redo the years of tweaking SXCE on this server.
Gary
Build 121 for OpenSolaris 200x will be out very soon. The OpenSolaris development releases get a bit more TLC than the SXCE ones. It was intended that they be released simultaneously originally, but resourcing for the development releases has always been difficult.
I’m sure folks would love an easy upgrade path, but it was never guaranteed for the SXCE releases (and didn’t always work) and due to the amount of work involved, there’s no direct SXCE -> OpenSolaris upgrade path either.
Enterprising individuals here and there have come up with their own workarounds though, and I’m sure if you search around blogs.sun.com, you’ll find entries like this one:
http://blogs.sun.com/slowhog/entry/install_opensolaris_side_by_side
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