Dan Price wrote: > On Thu 01 May 2008 at 11:54PM, Steffen Weiberle wrote: >> Something to ponder as I watch the insides of my eye lids tonight. I did >> not know that whole root zones work and sparse do not, as I only create >> sparse zones to save space, and that fails even on RC3. > > Another doc issue, I suppose. Technically zones on 2008.05 are branded > (ipkg) and branded zones don't support sparse roots, but... it's > certainly not obvious.
So, it seems I a barking up the wrong tree. I thought this was my creating a zone fails with a default install of OpenSolaris 2008.05 RC3. I manually configured the zone, it is shared IP. Then tried to install it, which promptly failed. The zone is whole root, and it is brand=ipkg. Oddly, it is working today. Got moved to direct internet access late last night, so lack of direct access to the pkg.opensolaris.org looks to be the problem. The error message did not give an indication of that. And as an S10 zone bigot, I just expected this to work as usual. This will require me to change how I demo at customers, since I won't have net access there. >> Since zonepath on ZFS is supported in Nevada and OpenSolaris, the price >> of whole root is smaller if, which I will, I clone. Smaller as I create >> lots of zones, that is. The initial zone will consume a lot of disk >> space (relative to sparse zones). [1] >> >> My unknown is the unexpected increase in zone size due to copy on write >> of the clone as different zones diverge from the snapshot. > > Keep in mind in your ponderings that zones are likely to be smaller in > general-- whereas today, a (whole root) zone typically has, roughly speaking, > the same contents as the global zone-- often 2 or more GB. > > With pkg(5), a non-global zone is about 200MB at present (although that > could change, hopefully they'll get smaller)-- since it's so much easier > to add packages, I figure it's easier to start minimalist and let people > build up. How to decide "what's in" versus "what's out" of the default > zone installation is an open question. That works for me. I will have to look at the packaging and learn how to articulate this difference compared to Solaris 10. > > -dp > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
