On 18 May 2015 at 12:46, Greg Zartman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion. My experience with zonecfg on SmartOS is > that you never know for sure what the outcome will be. Sometimes it works > and sometimes you break things. I usually stick with the vmadm api if at > all possible. >
I haven't had any issues with zonecfg and datasets yet. That said I haven't done this much. > Do you need to do snapshots within the zone? Maybe an lofs mount may work >> better. That will probably allow you to mount in two zones at the same time. >> > > lofs is definitely a good option. I might go that route, as this keeps > the data independent of the vm container. > > However, I've heard it said that even doing this is not the "SmartOS way > of doing things." I'm curious what the SmartOS way is for large amounts > of data in a zone. > > The smartos or joyent way would seem to be more focused on large scale, rather than SOHO. Plus stuff like this is probably old code from Solaris that still works, and maybe they haven't looked into more effective methods. Nicholas ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
