Hi, just LUed to S10u6 with recent patches and created a new sparse zone. The manual says that it will initially use ~ 100 MB, however it eats about 1 GB and creation takes a relative long time! BTW: Older zones are ~ 300 ... 400MB.
So I tried to find the reason for this and it turns out, that patch backups in /var/sadm/pkg is the main reason for this. Now, the question is: Why are the du -s * of the zones that much different? Since all are sparse zones, why are the backups copied to some zone(s) and not to others? see: http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/zones/sadm.txt http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/zones/pkg.txt (web is the new zone). Also I see, that there seem to be duplicates in those directories, e.g. admin.apophis /var/sadm/pkg > ll -i SUNWmlib/save/121620-03/undo.Z SUNWmlib/save/pspool/SUNWmlib/save/121620-03/undo.Z 26592 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 150513801 Sep 12 06:22 SUNWmlib/save/121620-03/undo.Z 26598 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 150513801 Sep 12 06:22 SUNWmlib/save/pspool/SUNWmlib/save/121620-03/undo.Z Is this a relict of an ill patchadd? pspool sounds for me like a temp dir, however, I'm not sure, whether I simply can /var/sadm/pkg/*/psspool/**/* without loosing patchrm/LU functionality. Is there a doc, which describes the /var/sadm/pkg structure wrt. patching as well as zone create functionality wrt. /var/sadm/pkg ? Thanx, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768
