On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:05 AM, sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> 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
As I was reading my proposal from a long while ago[1], it made me wonder what the file system name for this would be. It seems as tough the layout would be something like the following - showing two diffferent BE's one with a separate /var and one without. rpool/ROOT/be1 rpool/ROOT/be1/var rpool/ROOT/be2 rpool/var_shared However, rpool/var_shared seems hackish and possibly short sighted in the event that there are eventually other directories under /var that need a similar capability but for whatever reason don't belong in /var/shared. Has Dan Price (or whoever is caring and feeding for zones) looked at this to be sure that zones follow suit? It would seem to make a lot of sense to put the pkg cache (e.g. for installing zones) into /var/shared. This would make it so that purging it is not so important to being able to keep many BE's around without having this extra undeletable (due to snapshots & clones) bloat. 1. http://markmail.org/message/2mevb3aog43hkz57 -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
