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 "or

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

2008-08-27 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

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
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 cannot be changed > on d

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 t

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 data

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 infrastruc

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 wh

[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 suppo