Re: [zones-discuss] Shareing files between zones

2009-09-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Illya Kysil ikysil+opensolaris@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sam, The easier way is to mount the storage (either NFS or CIFS or other) in the global zone and configure the lofs filesystems in non-global zones. A file system that is NFS mounted in the global zone

Re: [zones-discuss] Shareing files between zones

2009-09-13 Thread Sam Ashcraft
Thanks, option 2 seems a bit more like what I'm looking for, I would rather go direct zone to zone then bounce it through the global. However in your example above it looks like your mounting /data from global and not z1/data. How would I specify to use the Data directory form z1? I was

Re: [zones-discuss] Shareing files between zones

2009-09-13 Thread Sam Ashcraft
Ok I just tried using sharemgr to to do a standard nfs share, but it looks like the nfs server will not run in a zone. When it come to the idea of a directory in global that is lofs mounted to both zones, would both zones have RW access? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Shareing files between zones

2009-09-13 Thread Glenn Faden
Mike Gerdts wrote: A non-global zone cannot be an NFS server (without a third-party userland NFS server implementation). Also, NFS mounting a file system in a non-global zone that is exported from that zone's global zone is not supported. It may seem to work, but there is a known deadlock