Re: [zones-discuss] /usr read only

2006-08-03 Thread James Carlson
Krzys writes: > Hello Jeff, thank you for your answer.. well the sinple answer why I need it > is > because my iPlanet installation does fail when trying to install it in a zone > that is not global, aparently it does try to install something in /usr > directory > which is read only and instal

Re: [zones-discuss] /usr read only

2006-08-03 Thread Krzys
Hello Jeff, thank you for your answer.. well the sinple answer why I need it is because my iPlanet installation does fail when trying to install it in a zone that is not global, aparently it does try to install something in /usr directory which is read only and installation does fail on that...

Re: [zones-discuss] /usr read only

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Victor
There are several possible solutions which may help you with your goal. In order to choose from among them, though, we need to know why you would want to make /usr read-write from the zone. Simply making it a read-write mount would violate the security model of sparse-root zones. Krzys wrote:

Re: [zones-discuss] /usr read only

2006-08-03 Thread Enda o'Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
Krzys wrote: in http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592/6mhahuoo6?a=view document there is something like this: inherit-pkg-dir This resource should not be configured in a whole root zone. In a sparse root zone, the inherit-pkg-dir resource is used to represent directories that c

Re: [zones-discuss] /usr read only

2006-08-03 Thread James Carlson
Krzys writes: > It does make those file systems as read-only loopback, is there any way to > make > /usr read/write loopback or even if I need to make it as a separate file > system > partition of directory. I would like to make it so its read/write partition. If you were to configure it using

[zones-discuss] /usr read only

2006-08-02 Thread Krzys
in http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592/6mhahuoo6?a=view document there is something like this: inherit-pkg-dir This resource should not be configured in a whole root zone. In a sparse root zone, the inherit-pkg-dir resource is used to represent directories that contain packaged softwar