Hi Jeff & Robert, Thanks for the reply. Your interpretation is correct and the answer spot on.
This is going to be at a VIP clients QA/production environment and first introduction to 10, zones and zfs. Anything unsupported is not allowed. Hence I may have to wait for the fix. Do you know roughly when the fixes will be available. So that I can give the cusrtomer some time related info. Thanks again. Roshan ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:56 pm Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and zones To: Roshan Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Roshan Perera wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this has been raised before. > > > > Question: IS it possible to > > > > 1. Solaris 10 OS partitons to be SDS and have a single partition > on that same > > disk (without SDS) to be ZFS slice. > > Yes. > > > 2. Partition the zfs slice for many > > partitions and each partition to hold a zone. Idea is to create > many non-global > > zones and each zone to be in a zfs partition. > > I am not aware of the word "partition" in ZFS parlance, but I > think I know what > you mean, so I will attempt to answer with my interpretation: > > You can use a disk slice as a device in a ZFS pool. In that pool > you can create > one or more ZFS filesystems. > > A zone's root directory could be installed in a ZFS filesystem, > but this is not > yet recommended, nor is it supported, because it is not yet > possible to apply a > Solaris update to a system configured like that. This will be fixed. > > If you don't care about that limitation, you can put one or more > zones in a ZFS > fs. The best method seems to be one zone per ZFS fs. I think > that's what you > were asking about. That model allows you to put a disk quota on a > zone. > You can accomplish that same goal with SDS (now called SVM) and > soft partitions, > but you wouldn't get all of the ZFS magic. :-) > > > > 3. Also, at a later date to > > increase the zfs partitions used for zones as and when required. > > Yes. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems jeff.victor @ > sun.comOS Ambassador Sr. Technical Specialist > Solaris 10 Zones FAQ: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq------------------ > -------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
