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

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

2009-06-29 Thread John Lorenzon
-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone? 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

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

2009-06-29 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Rob, Le 29 juin 09 à 18:01, Rob Mallory a écrit : 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! Well, it's something that any

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

2009-06-29 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 29 juin 09 à 18:37, John Lorenzon a écrit : The answer is no. 5065254 NFS/UFS deadlock when system is both NFS server and client We don't use UFS. ;-) Use LOFS. Easy to tell... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

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

2009-06-29 Thread Roman V Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 20:56 +0200, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi Rob, Le 29 juin 09 à 18:01, Rob Mallory a écrit : 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

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

2009-06-29 Thread James Carlson
On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Nicolas Dorfsman n...@unikservice.eu wrote: Le 29 juin 09 à 18:37, John Lorenzon a écrit : The answer is no. 5065254 NFS/UFS deadlock when system is both NFS server and client We don't use UFS. ;-) That might not be enough to save you. The bug is a

[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

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

2009-06-11 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
You should give exact version. It's unsupported on S10. And any attempt to obtain a fix (even with some automagic automounter feature which would transform mount into a lofs) is returned as a NO WAY !. It would be fun to have some sort of survey to see how many people