In her video presentation on ZFS as a Root File System, Sun engineer Lori Alt, project lead of the ZFS Boot Project at Sun, begins with a look at the characteristics of a root file system, such as requiring a boot capability, having robustness, offering installation support along with swap and dump support, and providing ongoing management capabilities. She then gives an overview of ZFS that highlights how ZFS fills the bill on these requirements.
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In a recent blog John Cecere writes about creating a customized boot DVD for Solaris. He says the process is relatively simple and that there are utilities in Solaris to do large chunks of the work. He notes as well that the procedure is essentially the same for SPARC and x86, the only difference being the mkisofs command line used to recreate the ISO image at the end.
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May 1, 2009 is the last order date for the Trusted Solaris 8 software as the 7/03 and 2/04 releases reach their end of life. The last ship date for the software is July 31, 2009, with the end of service life date set for the same day in the year 2014. The suggested replacement product is the Solaris 10 OS which comes with Trusted Extensions.
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