[zones-discuss] Choice of fs type

2009-01-22 Thread Anthony Yeung
There are a number of ways to mount storage from the global zone to a non-global zone. What are the differences and how to choose? Thanks, Anthony ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystems prior to zoneadm install

2009-01-22 Thread Jason King
Is there any way to create non-legacy, canmount=yes filesystems with set mountpoints for a zone prior to zoneadm install? I'm trying to do some zone creation automation, and one of the things is a per-zone, writable /usr/local (yes it's not 'standard' but then I can count on one hand the number

Re: [zones-discuss] Choice of fs type

2009-01-22 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
it depends on your requirements. since you haven't specified any, i'll just say that i prefer using zfs over ufs. hence i'd just recommend adding a zfs dataset via zonecfg. ed On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:44:09PM +1100, Anthony Yeung wrote: There are a number of ways to mount storage from the

[zones-discuss] Patching clustered zones

2009-01-22 Thread Geoff Lane
We are in the process of setting up a service consisting of SAN based global storage which will host a number of ZFS based zones, each running an application that must be nade highly avalable. The zones are made highly available using Solaris Cluster and failover. This is all rather standard

[zones-discuss] ip_restrict_interzone_loopback again

2009-01-22 Thread Christine Tran
Hi, Has anyone *actually* observe that you can communicate between zones with the cable removed when /dev/ip ip_restrict_interzone_loopback is set to 0? Here's my setup, s10u5. global: 192.168.1.60/24 e1000g0, cabled zone1: 192.168.1.61/24 e1000g1, cabled zone2: 192.168.1.62/24 e1000g2, not

Re: [zones-discuss] Choice of fs type

2009-01-22 Thread Anthony Yeung
Thanks. I am just trying to understand the pros/cons. If zfs is the preferred way, under what circumstances should we consider using the others (such as raw device, ufs)? I suppose software compatibility (such as Oracle) is one reason why we consider to use ufs. Thanks, Anthony Edward

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching clustered zones

2009-01-22 Thread Ellard Roush
Hi Geoff, As an introduction I work on the Sun Cluster development team. Questions about how to support the existing Sun Cluster product can be sent to sunclus...@sun.com There are people that answer questions about the existing product. Sun Cluster today supports non-global zone in