I'm going to upgrade the drives in my storage server pretty soon and am becoming more interested in following the particular features getting dropped into zfs on opensolaris these days. I think it's time to upgrade my machine to the recent developer builds in order to take advantage of the most recent features.

How do we do that? IPS, the new packaging system with opensolaris, takes care of it all. We need to add the developer package repository, and then we can do the "pkg image-update" like we did to get from 2008.11 to 2009.06.

I decided to upgrade my home storage server to opensolaris 2008.11 yesterday. I built it on nevada 60 and then 62 (zfs boot) almost two years ago and upgraded it to nevada 97 a few months ago.

I had installed 2008.11 in vmware at work, and was pretty impressed at the whole package. I had been playing with some of the new tech on my older versions (IPS, in-kernel cifs), and I figured now was the time to start over with the boot drive since 2008.11 seems like a pretty stable point.