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# 1  
Old 11-30-2010
flar on linux???
Hi admins,

As we can create flash archieve on solaris with flarcreate command utility,
so is there any utility like this on Linux to create flah archieves ??
# 2  
Old 11-30-2010
Google tells me:
Jun 22, 2010 ... Live Upgrade (LU) and Flash Archive (Flar) are both essentially big ass wrapper around CPIO, and neither do anything that seems particuarly ...
www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=245
# 3  
Old 12-01-2010
Actually i found a utility called systemimager to create images, but its third party tool.

Is there any native OS utility that can be used for imaging purpose..................any command or something like flar??
# 4  
Old 12-01-2010
zip, tar, cpio, ar . . . .
# 5  
Old 12-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by snchaudhari2
Actually i found a utility called systemimager to create images, but its third party tool.

Is there any native OS utility that can be used for imaging purpose..................any command or something like flar??
nothing native. the closest thing would be dd but it does not work like flar does. not sure if there is an similar option in kickstart to Solaris jumpstart. system imager does work well for this. there are other packages you can use to.
# 6  
Old 12-02-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Google tells me:
Jun 22, 2010 ... Live Upgrade (LU) and Flash Archive (Flar) are both essentially big ass wrapper around CPIO, and neither do anything that seems particuarly ...
www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=245
Slightly off topic:
This blog entry is actually partially outdated, Jun 22, 2005, not 2010. Current Solaris 10 flar archives support PAX format and inclusion of ZFS pools in addition to CPIO. Note also that the flar technology didn't make it to Solaris 11 Express outside Solaris 10 zones creation support.
Flar was designed to allow cloning systems by creating a bootable archive, Solaris 11 way to do that is the new distribution constructor. 1.Introduction to the Distribution Constructor (Oracle Solaris 11 Express Distribution Constructor Guide) - Sun Microsystems
# 7  
Old 12-02-2010
So, is a flar more than a copy of a file tree? Are there magic files in there from raw devices or the like?
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