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Use LiveUpgrade to Migrate from UFS to ZFS with Minimal Downtime

Blog that describes how to migrate a Solaris 10 UFS file system to ZFS. LiveUpgrade handles the migration of the critical file systems, and this blog describes how to manually migrate three other file systems from UFS to ZFS using ufsdump and ufsrestore to minimize downtime.

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