On Wed 14 May 2008 at 05:01PM, Jordan Brown wrote:
> Dan Price wrote:
> >On Wed 14 May 2008 at 03:15PM, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> >>On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>wrote:
> >>>I remember hearing that IPS was designed to work well in a Zones
> >>>environment. Can anybody point me at any details?
> >>http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/a_field_guide_to_zones
> >
> >To be clear: the design takes zones into account-- but we're not
> >yet to the stage of fully exploiting that design for zones.
>
> Hmm. Interesting reading, but it seems like you haven't really gotten
> into the interesting parts.
>
> Sparse-root zones are one of the key pain points. Eliminating them
> makes life easier... but then again, if we could eliminate them, life
> would be easier for SVR4 packaging too. As a person developing an
> application for deployment onto a Zones system, sparse-root zones are
> probably my biggest Zones headache by far.
To be even clearer: I'm not soliciting feedback on this issue at this
time (and everything you said is already well known to the zones team
and the pkg(5) team). Please hold your comments for another couple of
weeks. You'll see discussion start up on zones-discuss, and I'll make
sure I post a notification of that here, as well.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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