Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Steve, Thanks for looking this over, responses in-line. Steve Lawrence wrote: During the zone installation and after the zone is installed, the zone's ZBE1 dataset is explicitly mounted by the global zone onto the zone root (note, the dataset is a ZFS legacy mount so zones infrastructure

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Glenn Faden
Jerry, For Trusted Extensions in OpenSolaris, we plan to use a new labeled brand for zones which will be derived from the new ipkg brand. So your proposal also affects labeled branded zones. I would like to explore the plan to delegate these datasets to the zone. Since the zone's root dataset

Re: [zones-discuss] going beyond 255 zones

2008-08-26 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 08/26/08 15:18, Michael Harsch wrote: Team, I'm new to zones-discuss, so apologies if this has already been posted. I would like to configure hundreds (maybe thousands) of zones on a single machine. I've had good luck up until ~250 running zones, at which point I run out room to

Re: [zones-discuss] going beyond 255 zones

2008-08-26 Thread Jeff Victor
This doesn't answer your question, but it may help resolve issues you haven't experience yet: I created 1,000 zones on a system. I wrote about the experience here: http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/spawning_0_5kz_hr_part http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/spawning_0_5kz_hr_part1

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Glenn, Glenn Faden wrote: Jerry, For Trusted Extensions in OpenSolaris, we plan to use a new labeled brand for zones which will be derived from the new ipkg brand. So your proposal also affects labeled branded zones. I would like to explore the plan to delegate these datasets to the

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-08-26 Thread Ethan Quach
Hey Jerry, I just thought about something regarding the zones dataset namespace. Instead of creating the dataset for zone roots at: rpool/export/zones/z1/rpool/ZBE1 Maybe we should insert the roped off ROOT container dataset like we do in the global zone:

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ethan Quach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jerry, I just thought about something regarding the zones dataset namespace. Instead of creating the dataset for zone roots at: rpool/export/zones/z1/rpool/ZBE1 Maybe we should insert the roped off ROOT

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-08-26 Thread Bill Walker
Absolutely. +1 to Mike. http://blogs.sun.com/mrbill/entry/separation_is_a_good_thing And from the SVM world: http://blogs.sun.com/mrbill/entry/in_the_zone_with_jet bill. Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ethan Quach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jerry, I just thought

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-08-26 Thread Ethan Quach
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ethan Quach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jerry, I just thought about something regarding the zones dataset namespace. Instead of creating the dataset for zone roots at: rpool/export/zones/z1/rpool/ZBE1 Maybe we should