Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-27 Thread Tommy McNeely
The question is, if you *temporarily* migrate your zones to UFS to install the big bad S10u4 patch, and migrate back to ZFS afterwards, will patches work after that? A better way to say that is, have we resolved this patch problem with zoneroot on zfs for S10u4? Tommy This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-26 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That link specifically mentions new Solaris 10 release, so I am assuming that means going from like u4 to Sol 10 u5, and that shouldn't cause a problem when doing plain patchadd's (w/o live upgrade). If so, then I am fine with those warnings and can use zfs with zones'

[zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread Anil Jangity
I have pool called data. I have zones configured in that pool. The zonepath is: /data/zone1/fs. (/data/zone1 itself is not used for anything else, by anyone, and has no other data.) There are no datasets being delegated to this zone. I want to create a snapshot that I would want to make

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Anil Jangity wrote: I have pool called data. I have zones configured in that pool. The zonepath is: /data/zone1/fs. (/data/zone1 itself is not used for anything else, by anyone, and has no other data.) There are no datasets being delegated to this zone. I want to create a snapshot that I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread John Wren Kennedy
Anil Jangity wrote: I have pool called data. I have zones configured in that pool. The zonepath is: /data/zone1/fs. (/data/zone1 itself is not used for anything else, by anyone, and has no other data.) There are no datasets being delegated to this zone. I want to create a snapshot that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread Anil Jangity
Thanks James/John! That link specifically mentions new Solaris 10 release, so I am assuming that means going from like u4 to Sol 10 u5, and that shouldn't cause a problem when doing plain patchadd's (w/o live upgrade). If so, then I am fine with those warnings and can use zfs with zones' path.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
James C. McPherson wrote: Anil Jangity wrote: I have pool called data. I have zones configured in that pool. The zonepath is: /data/zone1/fs. (/data/zone1 itself is not used for anything else, by anyone, and has no other data.) There are no datasets being delegated to this zone. I want

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Ian Collins wrote: ... I don't know if anything else breaks when you do this, but if you are building software in a zone on a lofs filesystem, dmake hangs. Regular make works fine. The output from truss is: stat64(/export/home, 0x08045B60) = 0 llseek(8, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 llseek(8, 0,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
James C. McPherson wrote: Ian Collins wrote: ... I don't know if anything else breaks when you do this, but if you are building software in a zone on a lofs filesystem, dmake hangs. Regular make works fine. The output from truss is: stat64(/export/home, 0x08045B60) = 0 llseek(8, 0,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS layout recommendations

2007-11-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Ian Collins wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: Ian Collins wrote: ... I don't know if anything else breaks when you do this, but if you are building software in a zone on a lofs filesystem, dmake hangs. Regular make works fine. The output from truss is: stat64(/export/home, 0x08045B60) =