Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com wrote:
There's no unionfs for Solaris.
(For those of you who don't know, unionfs is a BSDism and is a
pseudo-filesystem which presents the union of two underlying
filesystems, but with all changes being made only to one of the two
filesystems. The
Frank Cusack wrote:
Is it possible to emulate a unionfs with zfs and zones somehow? My zones
are sparse zones and I want to make part of /usr writable within a zone.
(/usr/perl5/mumble to be exact)
Why don't you just export that directory with NFS (rw) to your sparse zone
and mount it on
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Frank Cusack
frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net wrote:
Is it possible to emulate a unionfs with zfs and zones somehow? My zones
are sparse zones and I want to make part of /usr writable within a zone.
(/usr/perl5/mumble to be exact)
I can't just mount a writable
On 04.02.2010 12:12, dick hoogendijk wrote:
Frank Cusack wrote:
Is it possible to emulate a unionfs with zfs and zones somehow? My zones
are sparse zones and I want to make part of /usr writable within a zone.
(/usr/perl5/mumble to be exact)
Why don't you just export that directory with
On February 4, 2010 12:12:04 PM +0100 dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl
wrote:
Why don't you just export that directory with NFS (rw) to your sparse zone
and mount it on /usr/perl5/mumble ? Or is this too simple a thought?
On February 4, 2010 1:41:20 PM +0100 Thomas Maier-Komor
BTW, I could just install everything in the global zone and use the
default inheritance of /usr into each local zone to see the data.
But then my zones are not independent portable entities; they would
depend on some non-default software installed in the global zone.
Just wanted to explain why
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:19:15PM -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
BTW, I could just install everything in the global zone and use the
default inheritance of /usr into each local zone to see the data.
But then my zones are not independent portable entities; they would
depend on some non-default
On 2/4/10 2:46 PM -0600 Nicolas Williams wrote:
In Frank's case, IIUC, the better solution is to avoid the need for
unionfs in the first place by not placing pkg content in directories
that one might want to be writable from zones. If there's anything
about Perl5 (or anything else) that causes
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:03:19PM -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
On 2/4/10 2:46 PM -0600 Nicolas Williams wrote:
In Frank's case, IIUC, the better solution is to avoid the need for
unionfs in the first place by not placing pkg content in directories
that one might want to be writable from zones.
Is it possible to emulate a unionfs with zfs and zones somehow? My zones
are sparse zones and I want to make part of /usr writable within a zone.
(/usr/perl5/mumble to be exact)
I can't just mount a writable directory on top of /usr/perl5 because then
it hides all the stuff in the global zone.
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