Thank you Robert, delegated datasets make sense.
2014-04-17 20:40 GMT+02:00 Robert Mustacchi < [email protected]>: > On 4/17/14 5:17 , Mihai - Cristian Satmarean wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a question if is possible to move a zone from omnios to smartos? > > or the other way around > > Hi, > > It's generally not possible to move a zone around between the two > distributions. We have very different models for how zones should work. > > In SmartOS, we have sparse zones which means that the global zone > provides the contents of things like /lib and /usr. However, in OmniOS, > those are provided by the zone, but are mostly tied to the kernel. > Further, the general design of a zone in the OmniOS world, based on my > understanding, is that packages are installed into /usr and /usr is > writeable. In our world, that is not true and packages are installed > into another prefix. > > What you might want to do is create a delegated dataset that contains > your data, but not programs, and move that around instead. > > Robert > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25282639-784d7a88 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
