Octave Orgeron wrote: > Hi, > > This has been a major complaint for many sysadmins and beta testers. I > know one of my first bugs filed against the betas of Solaris 10 was the > lack of NFS server functionality within zones. I've even been in the > situation at work where this has been a requirement, only to have to > scrap projects. Probably the most common idea for having a zone NFS > server is for Jumpstart or home directories. As things stand today, > it's not doable. I've even escalated this thru different channels over > the past few years only to see it go no where. I'm sure there is a lot > of demand for this feature for zones. > > I think the key requirements would be: > > 1. Full NFS server functionality within a zone. So things like share, > /etc/dfs/dfstab, sharemgr, ZFS sharing, etc. should work in the same > manner as they do in the global zone. > 2. Security. Separation of NFS namespace to insure proper security > between zones. This may be achieved by making the kernel NFS framework > aware of the zoneid context. > 3. Performance. NFS serving out of a zone should not be slower or less > scalable than NFS serving from the global zone. > > Starting a project would be nice. But I think there should be close > involvement with the NFS engineers at Sun. As for getting their > attention and funding, the best we can do is show enough community > interest for NFS within zones. > > So I'd ask all sysadmins, developers, etc. to respond to this thread to > show support for fixing this. > > Octave,
Thanks for the input on the requirements. I am a NFS engineer for Sun. I don't think we should count on getting attention and funding for Sun's NFS engineers to do this project. All of us are aware of the need, but are focused on delivering other products. I'm not saying they will not help out, I don't think you could stop them. Again, I think that this is a golden opportunity to start an OpenSolaris project in the clear and with full involvement from the community. I'm willing to provide project leadership and mentoring to external developers. I'm pretty sure that the other NFS engineers are willing to review requirements, specs, design, code, etc. But the bulk of that work will fall on the community to provide. I'm not looking to start a project which gets done entirely within Sun. Thanks, Tom > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Octave J. Orgeron > Solaris Systems Engineer > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ > http://unixconsole.blogspot.com > unixconsole at yahoo.com > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never Miss an Email > Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! > http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail >
