I'm new to zfs and opensolaris and so am not sure of the correct terminology for this question.
I have a test machine running opensolaris 2008.11 (which I have been very impressed with so far). It has 1 disc for boot and 3 as a zpool (called tank, as per the majority of the examples ;)) This machine is a test "SAN" for use by a second test machine running vmware ESX (the free version). I have created tank/nfs/vmware, enabled sharenfs and can nfs mount it from linux and also ESX (though ESX always connects as root, nice gotcha there). I have installed a few test virtual machines and so far performance and stability are good. What I would like to do is split each virtual into a separate zfs filesystem to make snapshotting etc cleaner. To test this I created tank/nfs/vmware/machine1 which shows up as /tank/nfs/vmware/machine1 within solaris and put some test files in. I then tried to point ESX at it, no go. Looking at the tank/nfs/vmware nfs mount from my linux box the directory machine1 exists but it doesn't contain the files in the machine1 filesystem. If I nfs mount to tank/nfs/vmware/machine1 then the files appear as expected. Is there an option somewhere to allow sharing tank/nfs/vmware and the zfs filesystems mounted into that directory tree? It would make for a very neat solution if it did. If not I can get around it with one nfs mount per virtual machine, but that is extra overhead I was hoping to avoid. Thanks in advance Jason -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
