On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:19:15PM -0500, Frank Cusack wrote: > BTW, I could just install everything in the global zone and use the > default "inheritance" of /usr into each local zone to see the data. > But then my zones are not independent portable entities; they would > depend on some non-default software installed in the global zone. > > Just wanted to explain why this is valuable to me and not just some > crazy way to do something simple.
There's no unionfs for Solaris. (For those of you who don't know, unionfs is a BSDism and is a pseudo-filesystem which presents the union of two underlying filesystems, but with all changes being made only to one of the two filesystems. The idea is that one of the underlying filesystems cannot be modified through the union, with all changes made through the union being recorded in an overlay fs. Think, for example, of unionfs- mounting read-only media containing sources: you could cd to the mount point and build the sources, with all intermediate files and results placed in the overlay.) In Frank's case, IIUC, the better solution is to avoid the need for unionfs in the first place by not placing pkg content in directories that one might want to be writable from zones. If there's anything about Perl5 (or anything else) that causes this need to arise, then I suggest filing a bug. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
