[OmniOS-discuss] What's the best way to detect OmniOS version, specifically r151014?

Chris Siebenmann cks at cs.toronto.edu
Wed Dec 2 19:23:09 UTC 2015


> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Chris Siebenmann <cks at cs.toronto.edu>
> wrote:
> >  We have at least one shell script that needs to know if it's
> > running on a host with OmniOS r151014 versus a host with an earlier
> > OmniOS version (due to the change in ZFS pool reservations from
> > 1/64th of the pool to 1/32nd of the pool that we picked up with
> > r151014). Is there any particular good way for a shell script to
> > determine this, ideally in a lightweight way and without requiring
> > root permissions?
>
> Examine /etc/release?

 Somehow I missed that file. This looks like exactly what I want;
I can easily match against the first line. Thank you.

	- cks


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