Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice
On 2/7/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For this config, HW RAID is a non-negotiable requirement and SVM cannot be used to mirror the internal drives. It comes from a historic aversion toward the old SDS (Disksuite Suite). You can use soft partitions on top of hardware RAID. Suppose your hardware RAID'd disk is visible to the OS as c1t0d0 and you have slices 6 (many gigabytes) and 7 (<100MB) available: # Create the metadatabases metadb -a -c 3 -f c1t0d0s7 # Create 30 soft partitions, 500 MB each i=1000; while [ $i -lt 1030 ] ; do metainit d$i -p c1t0d0s6 500m newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d$i i=`expr $i + 1` done -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice
Thanks, ZFS wouldn't appear to be an option here as we are only dealing with a pair of internal disks with no SAN-attached storage. Paul John Clingan wrote: That's where you want to use zfs datasets. Push a dataset to each zone and mount zone-local bits, data and logs to filesystems created from that dataset. You can specify a quota per filesystem. John Clingan Sun Microsystems Sent from mobile phone. -Original Message- From: Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice Date: Tue Feb 6, 2007 7:00 pm Size: 1006 bytes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org On 2/7/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a proposed config on T2000 that will use the HW RAID to mirror the internal disks. So with a limited number of physical slices on the internal disks, we are looking at having several zones sharing a single partition for their zonepaths, like all under /export/zones /export/zones/zone1 /export/zones/zone2 /export/zones/zone... SVM with soft partitions is not an option and there will be no SAN attached storage to mount small slices for zonepaths. Other than the obvious issue of zones sharing a single partition (disk slice), are there any other concerns with this configuration? Yes. Running out of space on 1 zone will affect all other zones on the same slice. We ran into problems with this config because we cannot guarantee that we do not have a rogue zone. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice
For this config, HW RAID is a non-negotiable requirement and SVM cannot be used to mirror the internal drives. It comes from a historic aversion toward the old SDS (Disksuite Suite). Paul Mike Gerdts wrote: On 2/6/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SVM with soft partitions is not an option and there will be no SAN attached storage to mount small slices for zonepaths. Other than the obvious issue of zones sharing a single partition (disk slice), are there any other concerns with this configuration? Just out of curiosity, why are soft partitions not an option? Mike ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice
That's where you want to use zfs datasets. Push a dataset to each zone and mount zone-local bits, data and logs to filesystems created from that dataset. You can specify a quota per filesystem. John Clingan Sun Microsystems Sent from mobile phone. -Original Message- From: Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice Date: Tue Feb 6, 2007 7:00 pm Size: 1006 bytes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org On 2/7/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a proposed config on T2000 that will use the HW RAID to mirror > the internal disks. So with a limited number of physical slices on the > internal disks, we are looking at having several zones sharing a single > partition for their zonepaths, like all under /export/zones > > /export/zones/zone1 > /export/zones/zone2 > /export/zones/zone... > > SVM with soft partitions is not an option and there will be no SAN > attached storage to mount small slices for zonepaths. Other than the > obvious issue of zones sharing a single partition (disk slice), are > there any other concerns with this configuration? Yes. Running out of space on 1 zone will affect all other zones on the same slice. We ran into problems with this config because we cannot guarantee that we do not have a rogue zone. -- Just me, Wire ... ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org --- message truncated --- ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice
On 2/7/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a proposed config on T2000 that will use the HW RAID to mirror the internal disks. So with a limited number of physical slices on the internal disks, we are looking at having several zones sharing a single partition for their zonepaths, like all under /export/zones /export/zones/zone1 /export/zones/zone2 /export/zones/zone... SVM with soft partitions is not an option and there will be no SAN attached storage to mount small slices for zonepaths. Other than the obvious issue of zones sharing a single partition (disk slice), are there any other concerns with this configuration? Yes. Running out of space on 1 zone will affect all other zones on the same slice. We ran into problems with this config because we cannot guarantee that we do not have a rogue zone. -- Just me, Wire ... ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Several zonepaths on a single slice
On 2/6/07, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SVM with soft partitions is not an option and there will be no SAN attached storage to mount small slices for zonepaths. Other than the obvious issue of zones sharing a single partition (disk slice), are there any other concerns with this configuration? Just out of curiosity, why are soft partitions not an option? Mike ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
