On 4/17/07, Matty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy,
Ben brought up the idea of running zones on NFS file systems a few months back:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=81240𓵘
Have the zones team given any consideration to implementing a
supported straight forward solution for this? This capability would
have come in handy this week at my job, and it sure would be a useful
feature to have.
This is an often requested feature that I would be very interested in
as well. Is there a discussion somewhere of what the real stumbling
blocks here are? It seems as though it comes down to...
<zonepath> needs to be be mountable rw from the global zone.
<zonepath>/dev needs to be rw,devices mountable from the global zone,
then lofs mounted into the non-global zone. Yuck.
<zonepath>/root needs to be rw mountable in the global zone (at least
during install and uninstall) and non-global zone during normal
operation.
All of this seems rather straight-forward, except for the lofs mount.
This could be worked around by rather than having a normal dev
directory, a file "dev.ufs" is created. As the zone is being mounted,
dev.ufs could be lofi mounted at <zonepath>/dev. At this point it is
UFS, not NFS and can be lofs mounted into the non-global zone.
Surely I am missing something else. What is it? Any interesting
complications with patching and/or live upgrade?
Mike
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