Sorry for the delay in replying.
Sarah Jelinek wrote: > 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? I am not envisioning dataset spanning pools. S10 with ZFS root support is also strongly recommending that zone roots be in the root pool. I this plan to stick with that. > > >> 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? That is correct. > 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. > Yup..but I don't quite see a way around this. Perhaps the zones team has some thoughts here. -Sanjay > 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
