Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-09-03 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
hey jerry, nice proposal. sorry i didn't reply to this earlier, i managed to miss it last week. :( some comments are below. - you proposed: The org.opensolaris.libbe:parentbe property is set to the UUID of the global zone BE that is active when the non-global zone BE is

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-09-03 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ed, Thanks for taking the time to go through this. I have a few responses to your comments in-line. Edward Pilatowicz wrote: hey jerry, nice proposal. sorry i didn't reply to this earlier, i managed to miss it last week. :( some comments are below. - you proposed: The

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-27 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Darren J Moffat wrote: Jerry Jelinek wrote: Currently, with user defined properties, the values can be changed inside the zone. The proposal actually depends on this feature. It sounds like you might need to talk to the zfs team about some enhancements here so we can have properties that

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Steve, Thanks for looking this over, responses in-line. Steve Lawrence wrote: During the zone installation and after the zone is installed, the zone's ZBE1 dataset is explicitly mounted by the global zone onto the zone root (note, the dataset is a ZFS legacy mount so zones infrastructure

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Glenn Faden
Jerry, For Trusted Extensions in OpenSolaris, we plan to use a new labeled brand for zones which will be derived from the new ipkg brand. So your proposal also affects labeled branded zones. I would like to explore the plan to delegate these datasets to the zone. Since the zone's root dataset

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Glenn, Glenn Faden wrote: Jerry, For Trusted Extensions in OpenSolaris, we plan to use a new labeled brand for zones which will be derived from the new ipkg brand. So your proposal also affects labeled branded zones. I would like to explore the plan to delegate these datasets to the

[zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-25 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Apologies for any duplicates you might receive. This was sent to caiman-discuss, but for those who don't follow that list, I wanted to send this out here. Thanks, Jerry Zones/SNAP Design 8/25/2008 I. Overview This specification describes how ZFS datasets will be used with zones for

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Lawrence
During the zone installation and after the zone is installed, the zone's ZBE1 dataset is explicitly mounted by the global zone onto the zone root (note, the dataset is a ZFS legacy mount so zones infrastructure itself must manage the mounting. It uses the dataset properties to determine which