Re: [zones-discuss] Can I configure my zones on a ZFS filesystem?

2008-09-11 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:16 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: Q: Can I configure my zones on a ZFS filesystem? Thanks for everybody's feedback on this. I would like to update the Zones FAQ at opensolaris.org with the information. Before I do this I would like to confirm I have understood

Re: [zones-discuss] vxfs setting=value style mount options

2008-09-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 09:04 -0400, Jeff Victor wrote: The zonecfg man page has an example of the use of fs options: zonecfg:myzone3 add fs zonecfg:myzone3:fs set dir=/usr/local zonecfg:myzone3:fs set special=/opt/local zonecfg:myzone3:fs set type=lofs

[zones-discuss] vxfs setting=value style mount options

2008-09-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I have a simple zone configured to test the VxFS 'convosync=direct' option. It's an s10u5 machine with no additional patches: zonecfg:lt203398:fs info fs: dir: /foo special: /dev/lofi/1 raw: /dev/rlofi/1 type:

[zones-discuss] Can I configure my zones on a ZFS filesystem?

2008-06-26 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq/#sa_zfs states: Q: Can I configure my zones on a ZFS filesystem? A: Solaris 10 Update Release: It is possible to install a zone on a ZFS file system. However, at this time, we do not recommend putting the zonepath of a non-global zone on ZFS

Re: [zones-discuss] physical= not obeyed when ip-type=shared and physical dev part of IPMP group in global zone

2008-05-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 12:56 -0700, Steve Lawrence wrote: In the global zone, do you have two ip addresses (one on vnet0, one on vnet1) or is vnet1 configured as standby? Hi Steve, We have the following global zone config: vnet0: flags=1000843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4 mtu

Re: [zones-discuss] physical= not obeyed when ip-type=shared and physical dev part of IPMP group in global zone

2008-05-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:09 -0700, Erik Nordmark wrote: Does the initial placement on something different than vnet1 cause a problem? Or is it just confusing? Hi Erik, In this case it is just causing some confusion but functionality is not impacted. Thanks, Lewis

Re: [zones-discuss] physical= not obeyed when ip-type=shared and physical dev part of IPMP group in global zone

2008-05-21 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 13:56 -0700, Steve Lawrence wrote: It is documented here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2450/z.admin.task-60?l=koa=viewq=multipathing The behavior you are seeing is not specifically documented, but it seems reasonable. What behavior are you expecting? Hi

[zones-discuss] physical= not obeyed when ip-type=shared and physical dev part of IPMP group in global zone

2008-05-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I have a customer who has a basic IPMP config in his global zone: vnet0 vnet1 [currently vnet0 has the 'floating' IP] In addition he has a zone with ip-type=shared where physical=vnet1 When the zone boots the zone interface gets created on vnet0 instead of vnet1 I have verified this