On Thu 01 May 2008 at 09:50PM, Jason King wrote:
>
> On a related issue, what about IPS w/ sparse root zones? If I install
> packages from in the global zone while an IPS zone is booted, I notice
> doing a pkg info in the zone doesn't know it's there, and rebooting
> doesn't seem to help, nor did running pkg image-update within the
> zone. Am I missing something?
We have what I'd call rudimentary support for zones in this release; zones
are essentially "whole root" and are independent of the global zone. That means
you're on your own in terms of keeping your zones up to date with respect
to the global zone. I also can't warrant that zones you create today
will be automatically upgradeable when a more-full-fledged-zones-support
version of opensolaris comes out.
I'll put a blog entry together about the good and the bad, soon I hope.
As for sparse zones, which feature a read-only looped-back /usr (and/or /opt)
-- I have been doing a lot of thinking about how (or frankly, if) we should
support them in the new pkg(5) universe.
I'm planning on posting a write-up exploring the issues to zones-discuss
in the near future. I'll be looking for a lot of input from the community
of zones operators on future direction.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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