On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:27:28AM -0400, Jeff Victor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason King wrote: > >> I haven't found any documentation (yet, still looking), that says > >> anything either way, but I'm wondering to facilitate zone migration if > >> you can place a zone root on an NFS filesystem? Obviously would only > >> be mounted on 1 server at any given time, but outside of that, just > >> wondering if it should work, or if I should look at SAN/iscsi luns if > >> I want to be able to move it around. > > > > It should work.... but its not recommended because NFS caching sucks > > ass. The synchronous nature of NFS means that its gonna be much slower > > than it should be. iSCSI/SAN may have performance issues over local > > disk as well, but at least you still have a local filesystem cache. > > NFS/iSCSI/SAN performance should be better than local disk if the > remote storage device has a non-disk frontend, e.g. cache RAM, SSD, > etc. >
putting a zone root on an NFS filesystem is not currently supported. you can put a zone root on an iSCSI or SAN device that is configured and mounted in the global zone. ed _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list [email protected]
