An announcement from the OpenSolaris website states that there is ZFS boot support for the x86 platform. The previously announced ZFS Mountroot support in build 36 will no longer work.
A community on the OpenSolaris web site has been formed to focus on issues of observability in Solaris OS. They claim "if you cannot see a problem, you cannot fix it". This community will serve to explore existing Solaris tools and features as well as plan the next generation of OpenSolaris observability tools.
Anyone interested in the storage possibilities inherent in OpenSolaris needs to log on to the OpenSolaris Community: Storage, where blogs, discussions, information on endorsed projects (and an opportunity to join these), presentations and details about related storage communities can be found.
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