Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-07 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
hey mike/cindy, i've gone ahead and filed a zfs rfe on this functionality: 6915127 need full support for zfs pools on files implmenting this rfe is a requirement for supporting encapsulated zones on shared storage. ed On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:26:17PM -0700, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > H

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-07 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Mike, I can't really speak for how virtualization products are using files for pools, but we don't recommend creating pools on files, much less NFS-mounted files and then building zones on top. File-based pool configurations might be used for limited internal testing of some features, but our

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-07 Thread Mike Gerdts
[removed zones-discuss after sending heads-up that the conversation will continue at zfs-discuss] On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Mike, > > It is difficult to comment on the root cause of this failure since > the several interactions of these features are unknown. You

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2010-01-04 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Mike, It is difficult to comment on the root cause of this failure since the several interactions of these features are unknown. You might consider seeing how Ed's proposal plays out and let him do some more testing... If you are interested in testing this with NFSv4 and it still fails the sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > I've been playing around with zones on NFS a bit and have run into > what looks to be a pretty bad snag - ZFS keeps seeing read and/or > checksum errors.  This exists with S10u8 and OpenSolaris dev build > snv_129.  This is likely a blocker for

[zfs-discuss] Zones on shared storage - a warning

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Gerdts
I've been playing around with zones on NFS a bit and have run into what looks to be a pretty bad snag - ZFS keeps seeing read and/or checksum errors. This exists with S10u8 and OpenSolaris dev build snv_129. This is likely a blocker for anything thinking of implementing parts of Ed's Zones on Sha