David Smith writes: > I have about a dozen zones on a system. During the creation of some of the > early zones, I was wondering why my sparse zones were so large. I found out > that the /opt area was being copied, so > I updated the default template to make /opt an inherited directory for the > remaining (about half) the zones on the system. Now I would like to covert > the zones with "full" /opt directories to inherited. Can this be done fairly > easily? What about patches which may have been applied which affect the > /opt area on these zones? Would it be better to re-install these zones? Any > advise you could recommend about best course of action would be appreciated.
I'd reinstall the zones. We don't currently have a documented (or practical) way to change a directory from regular to inherited or vice-versa. As for the rest, packaging and patching understand how to deal with inherited directories, and inside a zone they skip over objects that are installed there (because the objects will have been installed in the global zone). I could be mistaken about this, but I *think* that the only tested configurations are the default 'sparse root' and -b 'whole root' ones; I don't know of any mix-n-match testing with inherited product directories, so you might be skating out onto a thinner section of the ice. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carl...@sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
