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Operating Systems Solaris zfs and flash archives Post 302285208 by incredible on Saturday 7th of February 2009 10:48:35 PM
Old 02-07-2009
You can create a flash archive from a system that is using ZFS, as a flash archive is just an archive of the data on the system, using cpio or pax. However, until the install software can create ZFS file systems, you cannot restore that flash archive and have an identical system
 

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GRUB-FSTEST(3)						     Library Functions Manual						    GRUB-FSTEST(3)

NAME
grub-fstest -- Debug tool for GRUB's filesystem driver. SYNOPSIS
grub-fstest [-c | --diskcount=NUM] [-C | --crypto] [-d | --debug=STRING] [-K | --zfs-key=FILE|prompt] [-n | --length=NUM] [-r | --root=DEVICE_NAME] [-s | --skip=NUM] [-u | --uncompress] [-v | --verbose] IMAGE_PATH <blocklist FILE | cat FILE | cmp FILE LOCAL | cp FILE LOCAL | crc FILE | hex FILE | ls PATH | xnu_uuid DEVICE> DESCRIPTION
grub-fstest is a tool for testing GRUB's filesystem drivers. You should not normally need to run this program. OPTIONS
--diskcount=NUM Specify the number of input files. --crypto Mount cryptographic devices. --debug=STRING Set debug environment variable. --zfs-key=FILE|prompt Load ZFS cryptographic key. --length=NUM Handle NUM bytes in output file. --root=DEVICE_NAME Set root device. --skip=NUM Skip NUM bytes from output file. --uncompress Uncompress data. --verbose Print verbose messages. COMMANDS
blocklist FILE Display block list of FILE. cat FILE Display FILE on standard output. cmp FILE LOCAL Compare FILE with local file LOCAL. cp FILE LOCAL Copy FILE to local file LOCAL. crc FILE Display the CRC-32 checksum of FILE. hex FILE Display contents of FILE in hexidecimal. ls PATH List files at PATH. xnu_uuid DEVICE Display the XNU UUID of DEVICE. SEE ALSO
info grub Wed Feb 26 2014 GRUB-FSTEST(3)
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