Nicolas Williams wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:30:44PM -0800, Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
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>>Luke Scharf wrote:
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>>>Why not just run a userland NFS daemon in the zones -- and follow the 
>>>existing security model?
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>>>That makes all of the security model questions fall away -- and it 
>>>also gets fault isolation.  There's a slight performance penalty, but 
>>>you're running a VM-ish environment anyway.
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>>With respect to performance, there isn't really any serious
>>performance hit at all for applications running in a local zone.
>>They interact directly with the kernel and disk, just like they
>>would if they were running in the global zone.
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>But we're talking about an NFS server in user-land
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Err, yes, the comment to which I replied made it sound like anything
in a zone suffered from a performance hit because of the VM-likeness
of it (or that's how I read it), which isn't true.

Darren


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