Hi,

Mads Toftum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to let zones share a global
> filesystem? I'm thinking of zones managed on a couple of cluster
> nodes, not of the zones being cluster nodes. The idea is to keep
> different services in different zones while they still work on the same
> filesystem.

Zones do not support global file systems directly, but you can achieve 
your usage scenario by using loopback mounts. Say you have a global fs 
/global/myfs in the GZ. Mount this into the NGZs using lofs:

zonecfg:foo> add fs
zonecfg:foo:fs> set special=/global/myfs
zonecfg:foo:fs> set type=lofs
....

> And while we're at it, how would that perform compared to just using 
> NFS? 

Don't know for sure, but surely it can't be any worse than NFS?

Thanks,
Zoram

> 
> tia,
> 
> Mads Toftum


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