But is there a way to install zone with its own /usr that is not taken
from globalzone right?

On 7/20/07, Nils Nieuwejaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri 07/20/07 at 15:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know that /usr directory is mounted as read-only in default in a sparse
> > root zone.
> >
> > Is there no way to give specific users write privileges to /usr in a
> > sparse root zone either using Solaris's role privileges or using sudo?
>
> No.  This isn't a file permission issue; it's a characteristic of the file
> system itself.  This is similar to asking if there's a privilege to give a
> user the ability to write to a read-only CDROM device.
>
> Even if you could do this, you _really_ wouldn't want to.  Any change to
> /usr in this zone would affect every other sparse root zone as well as the
> global zone.  A root user within this zone could completely trash your
> machine.
>
> > Is it possible remove /usr from inherit-pkg-dir entries?
>
> Not after the zone has been installed.  If you were allowed to do that, you
> would end up with a zone that has no /usr directory at all.
>
> Nils
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