Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm
Jeff Victor wrote On 09/14/06 10:35,: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones. The key is whether or not the file system is available under the miniroot since the upgrade takes place there. If the system is able to mount the file system from the miniroot, then upgrading zones hosted on that file system should be fine. Does anyone which fs types are available in the miniroot? I case I mis-read, nv47 has zfs available in the miniroot, as well as UFS. So I'd imagine Solaris 10 6/06 would have the same. Steffen ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm
Steffen Weiberle wrote: Jeff Victor wrote On 09/14/06 10:35,: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones. The key is whether or not the file system is available under the miniroot since the upgrade takes place there. If the system is able to mount the file system from the miniroot, then upgrading zones hosted on that file system should be fine. Does anyone which fs types are available in the miniroot? I case I mis-read, nv47 has zfs available in the miniroot, as well as UFS. So I'd imagine Solaris 10 6/06 would have the same. Even though the zfs code is available in the mini-root, the install/upgrade code running on the mini-root does not know how to discover or use zfs filesystems on the target disks, so you cannot install or upgrade zfs-based filesystems yet. Thus, this includes upgrading zones that reside on zfs. In the next update the zulu project will add live-upgrade support for zones, but it will still not include support for zones residing on zfs. That work is being handled by a separate project. Jerry ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm
LU doesn't work for boxes with zones yet, afaik. zonepath on vxvm volumes won't work for upgrade from 3/05 (granted, upgrade from 3/05 with zones isn't supported anyway). I have no reason to think this would work with 1/06 either, vxconfigd has to run in order to present the volumes to the OS, and I don't think it can run while you're doing an upgrade. I seem to remember removing VxVM mountpoints from vfstab before initiating upgrade for S8. Incidentally I just asked this question regarding SVM volumes being present during upgrade, and the answer from our engineer is that yes, it should work. Haven't tried it yet though. CT William D. Hathaway wrote: Hi, A co-worker recently posted this question: Does anyone know if you can put the zone root's on a Veritas Volume Manager volume and then have the ability to upgrade in the future? My gut feeling is that if you using Live Upgrade this might work, but it would definitely not work using the old-school standard upgrade method. Anyone care to comment on the current or future supportability of this? Thanks! William Hathaway This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm
Christine, LU doesn't work for boxes with zones yet, afaik. zonepath on vxvm volumes won't work for upgrade from 3/05 (granted, upgrade from 3/05 with zones isn't supported anyway). I have no reason to think this would work with 1/06 Just to clarify that upgrade from 3/05 when zones are present is supported for standard upgrade. It's the LU piece that is under development. For VxVM and other file systems whose metadata isn't known from within the miniroot, upgrading a system with zones on such file systems will be an issue until that support is made available. dsc ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
