Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Pan
Hi, He replied to my post earlier advising not to use the inherit-pkg-dir method as it will be unpredictable in OpenSolaris. Do a quick search on this same page with the term "um. don't do that" and read that! I think the conclusion is there is no sparse zones in OpenSolaris 2009.06. Every zone

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-07 Thread Anon Y Mous
>We don't have sparse zones in 2009.06 Hey Dan, if you don't have sparse root zones in OpenSolaris 2009.06, then what do you call the sparse root zone I made in OpenSolaris 2008.11 by following this tutorial: http://houdini68.blogspot.com/2009/03/sparse-zones-cloning-and-zfs.html The end resul

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-07 Thread Anon Y Mous
>We don't have sparse zones in 2009.06 Hey db, if you don't have sparse root zones in OpenSolaris 2009.06, then what do you call the sparse root zone I made in OpenSolaris 2008.11 by following this tutorial: http://houdini68.blogspot.com/2009/03/sparse-zones-cloning-and-zfs.html The end resul

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-07 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hi Sarah, sorry for the late reply. I was able to get sparse root zones working on OpenSolaris 2008.11 using this tutorial: http://houdini68.blogspot.com/2009/03/sparse-zones-cloning-and-zfs.html Try it out and tell me if it was what you were looking for. -- This message posted from opensolaris

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-05 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 06/03/09 02:06, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Le 2 juin 09 à 23:21, Dan Price a écrit : We don't have sparse zones in 2009.06, but zones work fine, and are quite small by default. Please try installing a zone, and just add the additional software you need use 'pkg install'. Any chance to hav

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Many thanks Edward for your answer. Comments below. Le 5 juin 09 à 10:24, Edward Pilatowicz a écrit : On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:39:12AM +0200, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Le 5 juin 09 à 04:45, Edward Pilatowicz a écrit : ipkg seems to be a great advanced techno. Anywa

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-05 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:39:12AM +0200, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > > Le 5 juin 09 à 04:45, Edward Pilatowicz a écrit : > >>> The difference between Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris is that, on >>> Solaris 10 by using the "create" would automatically inherit all the >>> 4 directories mentioned above, and

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 5 juin 09 à 04:45, Edward Pilatowicz a écrit : The difference between Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris is that, on Solaris 10 by using the "create" would automatically inherit all the 4 directories mentioned above, and by using "create -b" would create a "whole-root" zone. On OpenSolaris, how

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Pan
What is the name of the Java package or image in order to install into the zone? (I can't seem to able to find it.) Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-04 Thread Glenn Faden
Edward Pilatowicz wrote: the "inherit-pkg-dir" property is only applicable to solaris distros which use SVR4 packaging. (this means solaris 10 and SXCE). it is not applicable to opensolaris system. using it on opensolaris based systems will result in undefined behaviors and unsupporable config

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-04 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:07:36PM -0700, Kevin Pan wrote: > I don't understand your statement that OpenSolaris 2009.06 does not support > sparse zone. I would appreciate if you could clarify what you meant by "We > don't have sparse zones in 2009.06..." > > I thought by using the commands "add i

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Pan
I don't understand your statement that OpenSolaris 2009.06 does not support sparse zone. I would appreciate if you could clarify what you meant by "We don't have sparse zones in 2009.06..." I thought by using the commands "add inherit-pkg-dir", "set dir=/xxx" (for /lib, /platform, /sbin and /us

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 2 juin 09 à 23:21, Dan Price a écrit : We don't have sparse zones in 2009.06, but zones work fine, and are quite small by default. Please try installing a zone, and just add the additional software you need use 'pkg install'. Any chance to have it again in the next future ? We like the

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-02 Thread Sarah kho
Thank you for reply. Is there any way to manually download the required packages and use them with the zoneadm and zonecfg? for example fetching all OpenSolaris 2009.6 packages and creating a local repository? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-02 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 02:13PM, Sarah kho wrote: > Hi > Thank you for reading my post > I want to create some new zones and I want them to be able to use > software installed in global zone. for example Java runtime which is > installed in global zone. > > After I read some blog entry I found that

[zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-02 Thread Sarah kho
Hi Thank you for reading my post I want to create some new zones and I want them to be able to use software installed in global zone. for example Java runtime which is installed in global zone. After I read some blog entry I found that sparse zones support this feature but I do not know whether