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On 3/29/07, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Are there any parts of flash that can be opened? Any interface specs, >>> ARC cases, etc? These would be great improvements that the community >>> could work on. >>> >> Flash has some unresolved issues in opening the code. However, now that >> you mention it, the specs and ARC cases actually should be clean, such >> that you and other interested parties could work on a clean-room >> version. I'll look into that a bit and see what I can sort out. > > Cool - that would be extremely helpful. Initially I was resigned to > just wait for the next generation of the related technologies to come > out. Then I noticed that there were lots of lu* commands used during > zone creation. With zone creation being such a key part of life with > Solaris, it really seems as though this needs to be open for the > community to work with it. > Yeah, that piece is somewhat problematic, though the reliance on LU there is mostly for infrastructure, and not much on the actual LU functionality. The "plan" kicking around in my head was to break the connection by cutting zone installation over to using essentially the same code as zone cloning; there's a fair amount of similarity already, anyway.
Sounds good on the surface, but some details suggest a devil is lurking somewhere nearby. How does this play with zones that use inherit-pkg-dir? How about files that are added but not part of a package? When a zone is cloned, there is the implication that you want all of the customizations (sans sysidcfg stuff) to come over as well. If the global zone is cloned, this is likely not the case and as such more care should be taken to only take what is part of the package database. That puts us in a situation where we are doing something like reading /var/sadm/install/contents filtering out all of the files/dirs in an inherit-pkg-dir, removing /dev entries, etc. to generate a list of files to give to cpio. I suspect this is pretty much what ludo/lucreatezone is already doing. An interesting question comes up when ZFS root comes about. Could the global zone be cloned to form full-root non-global zones? If /usr, /lib, /platform and /sbin are separate zfs file systems in the global zone, could the global zone be cloned to form sparse non-global zones? Arguably the value of sparse zones goes down substantially when ZFS clones are involved, but it does provide interesting food for thought. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
