Hi Sanjay, A few questions...
Under Assumptions: > Since OpenSolaris supports only ZFS root file system, this is the only root > file system that is > supported. In addition for zones only ZFS zone roots are supported. For clarification, does this mean we only copy data from the root pool, or root pools if there are multiple(and allowed for multiple root pools)? The reason I ask is that the ZFS root filesystem, /, today does not have separate /var or /usr. I know that there is talk of allowing for a separate /var dataset, which means that this dataset could live in another zpool(not the root pool). So, is the plan to 'follow' any datasets that are part of the BE's? Even if it means spanning pools? > No user data payload. Flash provided the ability to include user file > systems. This was > reasonable when disks were much smaller and data was closely tied to the > system. Today, most > user data is either on a NAS or SAN device and they can be huge. User data is > often separately > backed up. Hence it does not it does not make sense to include user payload. I have been thinking about this, and I am assuming you mean that we won't copy anything outside of what is defined in the BE's, which right now is anything under rpool/ROOT/. So, /export/home is in the shared dataset space and would not be copied? I am asking because what does this mean for zones that have datasets as resources that are not in the root pool? Or a device as a resource. It sounds as if there is a possibility that some zones configurations will not be fully functional or bootable on the new system if we are only copying the content of the BE's. Requirements: > Master images must support global and non-zones. We should probably outline in more detail what the specific requirements for non-global zones is. that's it for now. thanks, sarah **** sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) wrote: > Caimanics, > Please review the requirements documents for replication in > OpenSolaris. This provides the the Flash type functionality but > includes support for zones. > > Thanks > > -Sanjay > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
