[pca] Patch 142901-05: installation woes

[Paul B. Henson]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Ben Taylor wrote:

> Also, if you're doing Solaris 10, I can highly recommend ZFS root with
> live upgrade.  There's a few warts, but nothing that would make me want
> to go back to ufs with vxvm or svm.

Live upgrade with zfs definitely rocks; the main wart we've come across is
that with thousands of zfs filesystems mounted lu operations can take on
the order of *days* to complete :(. Sun as of yet still hasn't resolved
that issue, but fortunately there's a third party patch:

	http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/luc/lutrouble.html#luslow

which really saved my bacon, taking lucreate execution time down from over
14 hours to 10 minutes...


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