[zfs-discuss] Re: [zones-discuss] Zones on large ZFS filesystems

2007-03-29 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Niclas Sodergard wrote: Hi everyone, Sorry for crossposting but it seems I have stumbled upon a problem that affects both. I have a V490 running Solaris 10u3 with a 16x750GB raid array connected to it. I've created an 8TB zfs filesystem called data1 and created a zfs filesystem called data1/zon

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ivan Buetler wrote: Jerry, Thank you for your response. See my zonecfg of the named NGZ here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # zonecfg -z named export create -b set zonepath=/zpool/zones/named set autoboot=true add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/lib end add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/platform end add inherit-pkg-d

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ivan Buetler wrote: Is this true for OpenSolaris? My experience: I was trying to upgrade from "SunOS 5.11 snv_28" to "SunOS 5.11 snv_54" where my NGZ zone roots were set to a zfs mount point like below: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zpool 93.8G 40.1G26

Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Rich Teer wrote: Excellent; disk space won't be an issue for me, nor will the non-live-upgradability, so I'll be putting my zone roots on ZFS. Rich, Just to be clear, both live-upgrade and the mini-root upgrade do not yet know about zfs so if you place your zones on zfs, you won't be able to d

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry Jelinek
John Clingan wrote: This is incorrect. All S10 updates have supported upgrading systems with zones. I believe what you are thinking of is that live-upgrade does not support upgrading systems with zones. This is being fixed in the next S10 update. It is already fixed in nevada. Which Nevada

Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Rich, Rich Teer wrote: Hi all, Last time I checked, having one's zone roots (zonepaths) on ZFS file systems was not a recommended practice, despite the fact that this works. IIRC, the problem was that the upgrade code didn't grok zfs and would therefore get terribly confused should the zone ro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Eric Schrock wrote: Upon closer inspection, we found that this scenario should work with the current upgrade solution. What will definitely not work is to delegate a ZFS dataset to a local zone, and then place system software (i.e. Solaris package contents) within such a filesystem. This should