Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat 10 Sep 2005 at 05:02AM, Daniel Johnsen wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > what about a port of Unionfs to Solaris ?
> > I read this wouldn't be too hard for someone who knows about filesystems in
> > Solaris.
>
> Daniel,
>
> If we could, let's move this over to zones-discuss (and thanks for the
> good followups). I've copied zones-discuss; those wishing to catch
> up on this thread should see
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2221&tstart=0
>
> > I want to create 10 Zones, for 10 friends of mine. What I have to do
> > now is COPY all the neccessary files from /bin/.. /lib/.. /sbin/.. to
> > EACH zone, this means I have got 10x wasted space.
>
> I think this statement is inaccurate. *By default* zones use the
> loopback filesystem, lofs(7fs), to import r/o copies of /bin, /lib, etc.
> into each zone. The packaging subsystem has been enhanced to be
> cognizant of these choices, and it's possible to import additional
> directories. Furthermore, the packaging subsystem knows how to
> create zones using "factory fresh" configuration files; that's why
> each new zone has a pristine /etc/passwd, for example.
Please note that such a filesystem may be of interest for OpenSolaris
based Life CDs as it would (from my understanding) allow to mount a writable
layer on top of the read-only CD.
Jörg
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