I’ve been waiting for ZFS support for root disks for a long time… now it is here finally for the Sparc version of Solaris.  It’s been in OpenSolaris for a couple months already.

For the new install, I used two 72GB hard drive in a Sun V210 server.  My primary server also a V210 has the same size drives but is using SVM for the root disks under UFS… It also uses ZFS but it will be nice to have a complete ZFS based server.

The first question that I will need to figure out is dealing with Flar backups… I want to make sure that the root backups are kept small so they don’t take as much room.  Not sure if this means I need to limit the ZFS root mount to do that or if it figures that out on its one… someting to play with.

I also plan on trying out the new release of WebTools which is the next version of what used to be called Cool Stack.

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5357052&tstart=0

Will try to play with that tomorrow…