Some time next week I'll upgrade eureka from Solaris Express snv_81 to whatever the latest stable OpenSolaris release is. There is no straight forward upgrade path from SXCE to OpenSolaris, so the machine will be reinstalled and the data restored from backup.
That means there will be some substancial downtime for people using services on eureka. More details later.
Another option would be to upgrade to SXCE svn_125, and wait until Caiman is ready to move to OpenSolaris. Is there any tempting reason to make the switch right now?
Yes, the mysql service is broken in the current release and I don't want to spend a lot of time debugging it when we have been talking a lot about an upgrade for the last month.
And if I make an upgrade I want the time spent getting zfs mirrored root and a real package system while I'm at it.
Ok. So that's not really an argument for choosing osol over upgrade to SXCE snv_125 then.
No, it's an argument for upgrade, and while upgrading I'll go for something with a future.
Going for "something with a futute" will still be possible in that future though, with less effort (if the Caiman project succeeds with its goals). But it's your effort, so I won't try to stop you. :-)
If you use pike-related things with "lysator" in the domain name you are using eureka. If it has "ida" in the domain name it's pelix. The most relavent notes are that git-services will be down, CVS works as normal.
Note that you can probably use the lu-tools to create a BE to install the new OS on without needing to resort to restoring from a backup, but an install from scratch is probably a good idea anyway.
That got postponed dur to me getting sick during the planned service window, but there will be another try in an hour or so. This time I'll split the mirror try and prepare the new OS on the detached disk in another machine, so there should be very little downtime today.
And that got postponed when it turned out half of the mirror was dead. I got the replacement disk from Seagate today. We'll see if I manage to get something running this weekend.
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