On 05 February, 2009 - Jason sent me these 1,6K bytes: > I'm new to zfs and opensolaris and so am not sure of the correct > terminology for this question. > > I have a test machine running opensolaris 2008.11 (which I have been > very impressed with so far). It has 1 disc for boot and 3 as a zpool > (called tank, as per the majority of the examples ;)) This machine is > a test "SAN" for use by a second test machine running vmware ESX (the > free version). > > I have created tank/nfs/vmware, enabled sharenfs and can nfs mount it > from linux and also ESX (though ESX always connects as root, nice > gotcha there). I have installed a few test virtual machines and so far > performance and stability are good. > > What I would like to do is split each virtual into a separate zfs > filesystem to make snapshotting etc cleaner. To test this I created > tank/nfs/vmware/machine1 which shows up as /tank/nfs/vmware/machine1 > within solaris and put some test files in. I then tried to point ESX > at it, no go. Looking at the tank/nfs/vmware nfs mount from my linux > box the directory machine1 exists but it doesn't contain the files in > the machine1 filesystem. If I nfs mount to tank/nfs/vmware/machine1 > then the files appear as expected. > > Is there an option somewhere to allow sharing tank/nfs/vmware and the > zfs filesystems mounted into that directory tree? It would make for a > very neat solution if it did.
By mounting over NFS v4 which supports "oh, look.. a new sub-filesystem, I'll mount that one for you as well". > If not I can get around it with one nfs mount per virtual machine, but > that is extra overhead I was hoping to avoid. Or that. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
