I have an installation of a Solaris9 release that is earlier than Solaris9
9/04. It is not even Solaris9 9/02, based on /etc/release.

My question is, isn't any release of Solaris9 really just Solaris9 plus
all the cluster patches ?

For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?

noone wrote:

>
> I have an installation of a Solaris9 release that is earlier than Solaris9
> 9/04. It is not even Solaris9 9/02, based on /etc/release.
>
> My question is, isn't any release of Solaris9 really just Solaris9 plus
> all the cluster patches ?
>
> For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
> support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
> feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?

Cluster patches are only maintainance. Equivilant of an IRIX Maintainance
release.

Relating to Solaris 9, why not install Solaris 10? its a free download!

Matt

noone <noone@noone.org> writes:


>I have an installation of a Solaris9 release that is earlier than Solaris9
>9/04. It is not even Solaris9 9/02, based on /etc/release.

>My question is, isn't any release of Solaris9 really just Solaris9 plus
>all the cluster patches ?

No; the updates include new packages which aren't installed
by patches.

>For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
>support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
>feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?

Possibly.

Casper

Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> noone <noone@noone.org> writes:
>
>>For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
>>support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
>>feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?
>
>
> Possibly.
>
> Casper
>

Answering my own question.

The main patch to achieve multiterabyte support is patch 114131-02. The
README then mentions other patches to achieve full multi-TB support.

noone wrote:
> Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
>
>> noone <noone@noone.org> writes:
>>
>>> For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
>>> support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
>>> feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Possibly.
>>
>> Casper
>>
>
> Answering my own question.
>
> The main patch to achieve multiterabyte support is patch 114131-02. The
> README then mentions other patches to achieve full multi-TB support.
>
>

Funnily enough, Sun support said that I MUST install 9 4/03 to get
multiterabyte support, despite what the patch README says

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, noone wrote:

> For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
> support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
> feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?

Not likely. As a rule, new features aren't added via patches, although
there are some exceptions.

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Rich Teer wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, noone wrote:
>
>
>>For example, docs.sun.com says that Solaris9 4/03 has "Multiterabyte
>>support for Solaris Volume Manager" as a new feature. Do I get this
>>feature by simply installing the latest cluster patches ?
>
>
> Not likely. As a rule, new features aren't added via patches, although
> there are some exceptions.
>

In this case, the Multiterabyt feature is actually available via a group
of patches. Possibly starting with patch 114131-02 and then the other
patches indicated in the README file

Matt wrote:
>
> Relating to Solaris 9, why not install Solaris 10? its a free download!
>
> Matt

Because what I intend to run on it is not yet certified for Solaris10,
only Solaris9 at this point.