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How to migrate a full root solaris 10 non-global zone from UFS to ZFS

edited Oct 16, 2013 4:44AM in Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (MOSC) 5 commentsAnswered
Hi, I have some full root, solaris 10 non-global zones which were built on UFS File systems.

I have been asked to migrate these to ZFS.

Do I just create new pools, one for root and one for data, then just do a find and an cpio to the new area?

Then amend the zonecfg file to look at the new ZFS pool mount points?

Once the data is all transferred over, do I then have to do anything special to the root pool to make it bootable?

What is the best practice for setting up the ZFS pools.

A supplier set some up us so the zone roots are :

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