>There is no way for the non-global zone automounter to convert these >automounts from NFS to LOFS. Firstly, there is no API for the non-global >zone to determine that the NFS server is, in fact, the global zone >sharing the same kernel.
It can easily tell this though. > Secondly, even if it could make this >determination, there is no way for the the NFS semantics to be turned >into equivalent LOFS semantics because the exported pathname is outside >of the non-global zone's root directory. That's just a small matter of programming :-) >Since the non-global zone automounter is unaware and unable to do >anything else, it will simply do an NFS mount. The problem is that CR >5065254 (NFS/UFS deadlock when system is both NFS server and client) is >likely to cause a deadlock. "Might cause a deadlock". I don't think it's an unsurmountable problem but it needs a bit of smarts in automount and a bit of help from the global zone. Casper _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
