Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Mallory
Hi John, to clarify, I don't want to mount a root-zone exported filesystem, but, from within the zone, I want to simply leverage the root-zone's automount tree to provide access to each non-global zone to our (seperate) NFS fileservers. I think the technical discussion above gets into the

Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Mallory
Should we star a petition? Given that I have a Sun badge I can offer petitioning quite physically ;-) Yes Please! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-06-29 Thread Rob Mallory
Hi Niko, this thread had 150 hits in the last three weeks, the topic is in the FAQ since 2005, and the question comes about every 9 months or so. So it seems it would be a desired feature! I expect it would be most utilized in shops who have thousands of automount map entries, and

[zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-06-11 Thread Rob Mallory
I'd like to hear the latest on this topic. (in the zones FAQ since 2005) I'm exploring the idea of running lx-brand zones on a Solaris 10-x86 Sunray server, to do light interactive work needing Linux eg: rsh lxzone xterm Potentially, there could be a resource-capped lx-brand zone for each