Just so that there is no confusion, let's use beadm'ing instead of LU'ing.
On 02/ 5/10 02:18 AM, Michael Ramchand wrote: > Based on my experience of LUing, I totally agree that this is a > necessary thing to do. > > I'm not completely sure that I would mount things under /var/shared > and then symlink them. > > I like the idea of each /var dir being a dataset. > > I also like the idea of LU being able to decide which to "share" and > which to "clone". We are not going to provide the ability for the users to decide which to share or not. This is going to be fixed. > > You suggested method of having a /var/shared dataset and having all > "shared" datasets underneath that is great, the only change I'd > suggest is to NOT symlink, but simply set mountpoint=/var/<blah> . zfs > list will make it clear what is "shared" or not. Yup..that's reasonable. > > I'm slightly concerned that using the zfs heirarchy as a mechanism for > LU to know what to or not to propagate might be too restrictive, or > possibly require too much up front planning. Are there any good reason > why we shouldn't have an LU specific file in the /etc/lu dir where we > can define/modify per /var dataset what we want to do with it? > > I'm happy either way, it's just that the 2nd one seems a little more > flexible, though possibly more prone to user error. Thanks for the feedback. -Sanjay > > Mike > > On 05/02/2010 08:05, sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) wrote: >> >> Salutations!! >> >> As part of Solaris Next I am proposing the following changes to /var >> hierarchy to avoid system amnesia across multiple Boot Environments. >> I would appreciate your feedback on caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org. >> >> -Sanjay >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20100205/8df9a21e/attachment.html>
