On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ethan Quach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Jerry, > > I just thought about something regarding the zones dataset > namespace. Instead of creating the dataset for zone roots at: > > rpool/export/zones/z1/rpool/ZBE1 > > Maybe we should insert the "roped off" ROOT container dataset > like we do in the global zone: > > rpool/export/zones/z1/rpool/ROOT/ZBE1 > > so that we confine the place where we know boot environment roots > live. The reason we do this is in the global zone is so that we > don't have to troll through potentially thousands of datasets > (sorting out whatever's been created in the shared area) to find > BE roots. This same problem would occur in the zone BE namespace. > > Thoughts?
rpool/ROOT seems to be redundant and it repeats itself. :) In the global zone, rpool/ROOT makes sense because there needs rpool and ROOT perform different duties. In a non-global zone, rpool/export/zones/z1 is equivalent to the global zone's rpool. To maximize synergies (and end abuse of /export - see filesystem(5)), I suggest: This is the equivalent of the global zone's rpool. Or in an environment where there is a pool per zone, it may be z1pool. rpool/zones/z1 This is managed by zoneadm and beadm. If all goes well, they both use libzonecfg to minimize the chance of divergence. rpool/zones/z1/ROOT rpool/zones/z1/ROOT/be1 rpool/zones/z1/ROOT/be2 The rest are available for use within the zone and may be mounted other places rpool/zones/z1/* -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
