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Re: [zones-discuss] Do sparse root zones share pages of inherited files in the page cache?

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Do sparse root zones share pages of inherited files in the page cache > across zones? AFAIK, yes. And measurements support that. > If so, doesn't that mean that, even though whole root on cloned zfs > would result in the same _disk_ sa

Re: [zones-discuss] Do sparse root zones share pages of inherited files in the page cache?

FWIW, I would imagine that the ideal solution, if possible, would be that pages backed by multiply-referenced blocks (snapshots, clones, or maybe even de-duping) would be internally handled like copy-on-write pages, so that the page and its backing store diverge together. I wouldn't be surprised i

[zones-discuss] The mists of time

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Jeff Victor wrote: > > There wasn't much Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 deployed on x86, so, to the > best of my knowledge, there will not be a Solaris 8 Containers or > Solaris 9 Containers for x86. I suppose that rules out Solaris 2.5 Containers too ;-) I'm currently in

[zones-discuss] Do sparse root zones share pages of inherited files in the page cache?

Do sparse root zones share pages of inherited files in the page cache across zones? If so, doesn't that mean that, even though whole root on cloned zfs would result in the same _disk_ savings as a sparse zone, it wouldn't get similar savings in the page cache? Has anyone actually measured the imp