Re: [zones-discuss] PS Re: Fwd: Live Upgrade and sparse root zones with their own /usr?

2009-05-13 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:50 AM, James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com wrote: Ouch.  The man page for zonecfg(1M) says:     A sparse zone inherits the following directories:       /lib       /platform       /sbin       /bin     Although zonecfg allows you to remove one  of  these  as  an

Re: [zones-discuss] PS Re: Fwd: Live Upgrade and sparse root zones with their own /usr?

2009-05-13 Thread James Carlson
Elizabeth Schwartz writes:     Although zonecfg allows you to remove one  of  these  as  an     inherited directory, you should not do so. You should either     follow the whole-root model or the sparse model; a subset of     the sparse model is not tested and you might encounter unex-  

Re: [zones-discuss] PS Re: Fwd: Live Upgrade and sparse root zones with their own /usr?

2009-05-13 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Mutter. Thanks for the fast response. It'd be nice if it had some sort of *warning* if it isn't safe, I certainly found a lot of sites suggesting that particular modification (removing /usr as an inherited dir). I'm building zones that run apache servers (mostly, coolstack) and the web folks

Re: [zones-discuss] PS Re: Fwd: Live Upgrade and sparse root zones with their own /usr?

2009-05-11 Thread James Carlson
Elizabeth Schwartz writes: PS was creating sparse zones with their own /usr directories a totally dumb idea? At the time we did it because we had apache stuff that was trying to poke into /usr and I wanted to allow the web developers to play with /usr if needed. But I'm worried that I've

[zones-discuss] PS Re: Fwd: Live Upgrade and sparse root zones with their own /usr?

2009-05-09 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
PS was creating sparse zones with their own /usr directories a totally dumb idea? At the time we did it because we had apache stuff that was trying to poke into /usr and I wanted to allow the web developers to play with /usr if needed. But I'm worried that I've broken the model as far as getting