[OmniOS-discuss] Hello world, and some newcomers questions :)

[Theo Schlossnagle]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> ... and a few more questions:
>
> 1) Does the stable or bloody ISO include relatively recent illumos
> gate features such as LZ4 compression for rpools? I am a bit alarmed
> that the filename timestamp for bloody involves February 2013, if I
> read it right... ;)
>

Both stable and bloody support lz4 as the default and if you kayak install,
it uses compression.


> 2) Is there an out-of-the-box or via simple hackery a way to get
> the omnios rootfs onto an existing rpool, perhaps one of an older
> version (think SXCE/Sol10)?
>

I believe you can create a new BE anddo a fresh pkg image-create into it.


> 3) Installing additional SVR4 packages in GZ and LZs should not be
> a problem, right? :)
>

No problems there, I do that all the time.

-- 

Theo Schlossnagle

http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle
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