David:
A classic use case for Zone booting over NFS could
be identified within grid computing environment
in order to achieve resource allocation.
It is critical since I consider zone is considered as
resource fabric to access large (TB) over underline
network NFS. Otherwise grid service providers need
to implement quite Transactional grid enabled network
file system management services. Of course, it has to
be zone aware.
Thanks
Lei
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On 06/20/06 08:24 AM,:
Apologies if this has been discussed before. A customer recently
insisted that Zones are not supported/do not work if installed on a
NAS device. Is this the case?
Booting a zone over NFS (namely where its root file system is on the
NAS device) is not supported at the current time. There are um...
interesting workarounds like using lofi(7D) available, as Mike Gerdts
mentions.
Boot support over NFS is definitely something we want to support in the
future,
Just to make it clear though - a Solaris 10 system acting as a NAS
device can itself host its own non-global zones. They just need to
boot off of local file systems on the system.
Hoping I haven't make the issue more confusing ;)
dsc
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