Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread sunnie
After reading some material about zoneadm clone, it seems to me that such a fast zone creation requires the template zone to be on a zfs file system. However, if not, anything else can help speed up installing zone? Especially, at present, my SUNOS only have a global zone. This message

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread Steffen Weiberle
sunnie wrote: After reading some material about zoneadm clone, it seems to me that such a fast zone creation requires the template zone to be on a zfs file system. However, if not, anything else can help speed up installing zone? Especially, at present, my SUNOS only have a global zone.

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Hi Dick, Dick Davies wrote: On 19/09/2007, Steffen Weiberle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ZFS, with Nevada, a snapshot and then clone is created, so it is very fast. That's also the case in Solaris 10 update 4, I believe. That is not my experience, and I just tried it on build 12 (not

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 18 Sep 2007 at 11:06PM, sunnie wrote: After reading some material about zoneadm clone, it seems to me that such a fast zone creation requires the template zone to be on a zfs file system. However, if not, anything else can help speed up installing zone? Especially, at present, my SUNOS

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 19 Sep 2007 at 10:21AM, Steffen Weiberle wrote: Hi Dick, Dick Davies wrote: On 19/09/2007, Steffen Weiberle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ZFS, with Nevada, a snapshot and then clone is created, so it is very fast. That's also the case in Solaris 10 update 4, I believe.

Re: [zones-discuss] how long would it take to install a zone on Sun

2007-09-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/19/07, Dan Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By default /opt will be *copied* from the global zone. If you want it to be sparse instead (which means it will be a loopback, read-only filesystem) then add an inherit-pkg-dir entry for /opt. This will usually significantly speed up