> > Why would you want to do the lofs mount instead of > > just mounting the file system just in the > > zone? > > Because mounting filesystems directly in a non-global > zone would mean you'd have to export physical devices > to that non-global zone. > > That would have two distinct and serious > disadvantages: > > - the filesystem on the device becomes unusable for > other zones on the system > > - this method would be ad hoc, which does not scale > at all, making automation and management increasingly > complicated and thereby difficult. > > The good thing to do is let the global zone abstract > the resources as much as possible, and let the kernel > manage the system utilization, instead of trying to > do one's own resource caps.
Thanks UX-admin. The disadvantages of managing seperate disks in each zone far surpase the slight performance hit of lofs. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
