On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Paul Davis <paul.da...@sun.com> wrote:
>
> 121430-33 (or higher) supports ZFS root with ZFS zonepaths (each in their
> own zpools). Been testing this extensively as a POC and it works, lucreate
> plus patching. We did file bug 6819838 on preservation of mountpoint
> settings after lucreate when set at the zfs level vs. zpool level, but other
> than that pleased with the functionality. I believe the restriction is that
> you MUST use ZFS root and not UFS root w/ ZFS zones.

Paul, can you verify that with whoever decides those things?
--JeffV


> Enda O'Connor wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> As far as I'm aware the latest Lu patches remove this restriction
>> 121430-xx, but I have cc'ed the zfs team for some guidance.
>>
>> Enda
>>
>> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 19:55, Nicolas Dorfsman <n...@unikservice.eu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Le 6 avr. 09 à 19:35, Alexander Skwar a écrit :
>>>
>>>        On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 13:46, Nicolas Dorfsman
>>>        <n...@unikservice.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>>                  I'm waiting for some patch to allow non-local zones to
>>>            be located out of the rpool before upgrading my customer
>>>            mainframe (s/mainframe/sf15k/).
>>>
>>>                  Is there anybody here who knows if or when it'd be
>>>            available ?
>>>
>>>        Is it not allowed to have non-global zones on an arbitrary
>>>        zpool? Who says so?
>>>
>>>        I'm curious, because my zone roots are NOT located on
>>>        rpool and things *seem* to work fine. Or am I running into
>>>        some sort of problem by doing this?
>>>
>>>    You could read :
>>>
>>> I *could* :)
>>>
>>>    In other words : if you never apply patchs, everything's fine.  If
>>>    you'd like to patch, you may need to use some trick (like detaching
>>>    zone and re-attaching them on a OS supporting your conf).
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot, I wasn't actually aware of that limitation.
>>>
>>> Learn something new every day... :/
>>>
>>>    So...now we're friend you and me, waiting for a patch.  :)
>>>
>>> Yes, seems like. Thanks a lot for reading the important part to
>>> me. I appreciate it!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Alexander
>>> --
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