Thanks, this looks feasible, although awkward. I also considered simply moving the filesystem to the global zone's vfstab, and set it to mount under /zones/my_zone/root (ie mount it into the local zone). This is probably a bad idea, but I'm not entirely sure why.
- greg -----Original Message----- From: Steve Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:16 PM To: Glenn Faden Cc: Tillman, Gregory; zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] NFS exports from global zone holding local zone mount points open I'm guessing your zonecfg for myzone looks something like: fs: dir: /logdir special: /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 raw: /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 type: ufs options: [] If you want to share the filesystem from the global zone, mount the device in the global zone, and in the non-global zone, just use a lofs mount to the global zone: In global /etc/vfstab: /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 /zones/zone_logs/myzone_logdir ufs - yes - In global /etc/dfs/dfstab share -F nfs -o ro=stats.lmig.com /zones/zone_logs/myzone_logdir In zonecfg for myzone: fs: dir: /logdir special: /zones/zone_logs/myzone_logdir type: lofs options: [] I tested this using the solaris express developer release, and it works. This most likely works on the latest s10 update, but please check. -Steve L. On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:07:19AM -0800, Glenn Faden wrote: > This feature is not supported with standard Solaris. It is only > supported in Trusted Extensions. There are at least two problems in > standard Solaris. As you pointed out, the NFS sharing should not take > place until the zone is booted, and it should be unshared when the > zone is halted. TX does the share and unshare operations automatically > at the right time (within zoneadmd). TX maintains separate dftstab > files for each zone. > > Secondly, the pathname, e.g. /zones/myzone, is not searchable except > by root.. So anything that was exported would not be available anyway. > This is also fixed in TX by special casing the zonepath permissions for NFS. > > --Glenn > > Tillman, Gregory wrote: > > >I understand that NFS-exports need to be done in the global zone, so > >I dutifully added: > > > >share -F nfs -o ro=stats.lmig.com /zones/myzone/root/logdir > > > >to /etc/dfs/dfstab of my global zone. > > > >But when the master system rebooted, the NFS export happened before > >the local zone could boot. So the zone could not mount this > >filesystem, because the mount point was busy, and the zone boot > >failed. The problem may also occur with a simple reboot of the local > >zone, I haven't tried that yet. > > > >This must be a common problem, so I wondered if there is a > >recommended solution. > > > >Thanks > > > >- greg > >_______________________________________________ > >zones-discuss mailing list > >zones-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > zones-discuss mailing list > zones-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
