Hi, [Sorry for cross-posting, but I think either list can provide the solution I'm looking for.]
I have been up all night researching zones and ZFS for a particular project we are going to build soon. It's going to feature the latest and greatest of OpenSolaris, and use ofcourse ZFS pool to manage the available disk without allowing disk device files in the zones. The thing I want to be done (sorry if this is a really stupid question, but I'm a bit of a newbie in ZFS and zones, althought I like the concept a lot!), is to create a pool, say pool/home, and then have that pool mounted read write in a couple of zones running probably OpenSolaris on Nexenta, depending on the breaks. So my question is, is it possible to mount the pool/home pool to several different zones? I've been trying just about every concievable name combination in google, but haven't found a definitive answer. The thing is, one zone is going to run sendmail/ postfix/whatever, that stores the mail in the /home/$user/Maildir. Then there'll be another zone that runs some imap server application, like Dovecot for example, and it reads the mail from /home/$user/Maildir. Can this be done with ZFS? Reading documentation on the net, I came to wonder about this kind of solution host# zfs create pool/home host# zonecfg -z myzone > add dataset dataset> set name=pool/home dataset> end > ^D host# zoneadm -z myzone boot host# zlogin myzone myzone# zfs set mountpoint=/home pool/home Will this work? I'm sorry, but I don't have a OpenSolaris machine on to test this theory. Any pointers to documentation that explains things would be greatly appreciated! warm regards, and have a nice 2008, Bo Granlund _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
