[OpenIndiana-discuss] Surprising bug (???) migrating a root pool

[cjt]

On 09/22/2016 08:40 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote:
> I tried migrating the root pool from a small and slow disk with 512 byte
> blocks to a larger disk of 2TB with 4k blocks.
>
> So I connected the larger disk as c1t1d0, partitioned with an smi label and
> a single slice s0 covering the whole disk. I mad
> I did
> zpool create nxtroot c1t1d0s0
> zfs snapshot -r rpool at moove
> zfs send -R rpool at moove | zfs receive -Fd nxtroot
> zpool export nxtroot
>
> Then I removed the old rpool disk , and rebooted into live DVD for oi 151a7
> (which is necessary, because later 151distros won't run SunRay software
> services which is la raison d'être pour cet ordinateur) <snip>

Is anything being done to address that shortcoming?  Is the SunRay 
effectively dead?