Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Lori, Friday, July 28, 2006, 6:50:55 PM, you wrote: >>> Right now I have such configurations and have been using smpatch >>> without any problems so far. >> >> I thought I read somewhere (zones guide?) that putting the zone root fs >> on zfs was unsupported. LA> You've missed the earlier

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-28 Thread Lori Alt
Right now I have such configurations and have been using smpatch without any problems so far. I thought I read somewhere (zones guide?) that putting the zone root fs on zfs was unsupported. You've missed the earlier part of this thread. Yes, it's unsupported, but the question was asked "Does

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-28 Thread Frank Cusack
On July 28, 2006 11:42:28 AM +0200 Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Matty, Thursday, July 27, 2006, 7:53:34 PM, you wrote: M> Are there any known issues with patching zones that are installed on a ZFS M> file system? Does smpatch and company work ok with this configuration? R

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Matty, Thursday, July 27, 2006, 7:53:34 PM, you wrote: M> Are there any known issues with patching zones that are installed on a ZFS M> file system? Does smpatch and company work ok with this configuration? Right now I have such configurations and have been using smpatch without any probl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Eric Schrock wrote: Upon closer inspection, we found that this scenario should work with the current upgrade solution. What will definitely not work is to delegate a ZFS dataset to a local zone, and then place system software (i.e. Solaris package contents) within such a filesystem. This should

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Lori Alt
Matty wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Eric Schrock wrote: The original reasoning was that we didn't have enough time to validate the behavior of the zone upgrade tools with ZFS as the root filesystem, particularly as these tools (Ashanti, Zulu) are a moving target. Upon closer inspection, we foun

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Matty
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Eric Schrock wrote: The original reasoning was that we didn't have enough time to validate the behavior of the zone upgrade tools with ZFS as the root filesystem, particularly as these tools (Ashanti, Zulu) are a moving target. Upon closer inspection, we found that this sc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Schrock
The original reasoning was that we didn't have enough time to validate the behavior of the zone upgrade tools with ZFS as the root filesystem, particularly as these tools (Ashanti, Zulu) are a moving target. Upon closer inspection, we found that this scenario should work with the current upgrade s

[zfs-discuss] Zones root-fs in ZFS ? (fwd)

2006-07-27 Thread Rich Teer
I saw this question over in zones-discuss and thought the ZFS team could add something useful. If I read the caution right, I'll have to re-think my disk allocation strategy... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www