On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >> >> On Nov 3, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >> >>> On 11/ 3/10 11:56 AM, Henrik Johansson wrote: >>>> >>>> I would ideally like to do two things: >>>> >>>> 1. Have all filesystem configuration for the zone in the pool as we have >>>> with the global zone, only specify the pool(s) for the zone and all >>>> filesystems would be mounted inside the zone, this without giving away all >>>> control to the local zone. >>>> >>> Why don't you want the zones to be able to manage their own filesystems? >>> One of the main reasons for "zoned" filesystems is to allow filesystems to >>> have mount points relative to the zone's root filesystem. >> >> It would depend on what kind of users we have in the zone and how the zone >> is used, for some it would be fine to give away all control for other we >> would like to keep them from deleting snapshots/datasets or changing >> properties like quota. If the zones is compromised or if a privileged users >> does something nasty we would like to be able to rollback it from the global >> zone only. >> > I guess you can solve those two by setting the quota on the filesystem > containing the zoned filesystem and replicating snapshots.
I guess replication would solve the problem but with lots of overhead. The quota problem should work if we dedicated a dataset below the pool itself to the zone as it's "root dataset". But for some zones we would really like to limit all zfs operations such as rename, destroy and create. The solution to this would be to make sure there are no users inside the zone with such privileges, as long as the zone is not compromised it would be fine. > >> We would like the administrative gains of having all "filesystem" >> configuration inside the pool but for some customers we handle their data >> needs even if they have privileged equal to root inside the zone so we would >> like to restrict what they can do. >> > Would a quota be enough? That could help but the root scenario would break the privileges as described above. I must look into what we can do with our roles for ZFS management inside the zone. > >> Changing properties for the zone could also affect the global zone and other >> zones on the same global zone, lets say you would enable gzip-9 compression >> and write lots of data, that would bypass all resource limits for the zone >> and drastically change the amount of cycles required for zones datasets . >> Even worse for zones in Solaris.Next you could enable deduplication which >> could eat the metadata part of the ARC. This would decrease the amount of >> separation provided by zones with resource management. >> > I can see those being a problem if the cycles consumed by compression are not > assigned to the zone (I'm not sure if they are or not), otherwise a zone > cpu-cap would protect the rest of the system. As for dedup, don't enable it > on the zone dataset pool! The zone is not accounted for the resources consumed by ZFS so that could be a problem. I don't and won't assign gzip compression or deduplication to any datasets, but a privileged user in the zone could do just that. Henrik http://sparcv9.blogspot.com
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