Re: [zones-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystems prior to zoneadm install

2009-01-26 Thread Fredrich Maney
Why not simply create a writable /opt/local and using a symlink to it from /usr/local ? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Victor jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jason, I frequently recommend creating a writable /usr/local under the read-only /usr to solve this problem. One simple

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystems prior to zoneadm install

2009-01-26 Thread Jason King
Unfortunately, there is software that feels it must be smarter than the OS and will refuse to dereference symlinks (as well as hard code paths in their software) :) If only vendors would package software correctly... :) On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Fredrich Maney fredrichma...@gmail.com

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystems prior to zoneadm install

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Jason, I frequently recommend creating a writable /usr/local under the read-only /usr to solve this problem. One simple method to do this is: zonecfg -z myzone add fs set special=/mypool/zones/usr-local set dir=/usr/local set type=lofs end exit Will that work for you? --JeffV On Thu, Jan