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Upgrading Drupal could not be easier when it's run on an OpenSolaris server. I just recently upgraded Drupal from 6.15 to 6.16. The upgrade process took less than three minutes to complete. Here's the steps I used:

1) download tarball
2) zfs snapshot
3) rm -rf
4) untar tarball
5) cp -r .zfs/snapshot/[snapname]/sites/* sites

If something bad happens, I can just revert back to the snapshot. The process would have to be changed a bit if you have custom mods to your Drupal installation. My installation is a stock install with added modules and themes. Let me know if there's a more efficient way to upgrade Drupal on an OpenSolaris server.