I am in the process of beefing up our development environment. In essence I am really going simply replicate what we have spread across here and there (that what happens when you keep running out of disk space). Unfortunately, I inherited all of this and the guy who dreamed up the conflagration is lonnnggg gone.
So here the way it works today. There are two top level directories called GroupWS and ReleaseWS. The auto mount map (auto.ws) looks like this: Upgrades chekov:/mnt/dsk1/GroupWS/& cstools chekov:/mnt/dsk1/GroupWS/& com chekov:/mnt/dsk1/GroupWS Integration chekov:/mnt/dsk1/GroupWS/& Everything is fine. Do a cd to /ws/Integration and you are taken to chekov:/mnt/dsk1/GroupWS/Integration. The directory Integration is a real directory that lives in GroupWS. If you cd to /ws/com, you are taken to chekov:/mnt/dsk1/GroupWS and then you can move about as one sees fit. To replicate this in ZFS, I did the following; 1) Parked all of the drives (except c1t0d0 and c1t1d0) into several RAIDZ configurations in a zpool called dpool. 2) Created a file system called dpool/GroupWS and set the mountpoint to /mnt/zfs1/GroupWS. The sharenfs properties were set to sharenfs=rw,log,root=msc-servers. 3) Next I created another file system called dpool/GroupWS/Integration. Its mount point was inherited from GroupWS and is /mnt/zfs1/GroupWS/Integration. Essentially I only allowed the new file system to inherit from its parent. 4) I change the auto.ws map thusly: Integration chekov:/mnt/zfs1/GroupWS/& Upgrades chekov:/mnt/zfs1/GroupWS/& cstools chekov:/mnt/zfs1/GroupWS/& com chekov:/mnt/zfs1/GroupWS Now the odd behavior. You will notice that the directories Upgrades and cstools are just that. Directories in GroupWS. You can cd /ws/cstools from [b][i]any server[/b][/i] without a problem. Perform and ls and you see what you expect to see. Now the rub. If on chekov, one does a cd /ws/Integration you end up in chekov:/mnt/zsf1/GroupWS/Integration and everything is great. Do a cd to /ws/com and everything is fine. You can do a cd to Integration and everything is fine. But. If you go to another server and do a cd /ws/Integration all is well. However, if you do a cd to /ws/com and then a cd Integration, Integration is EMPTY!! I know this was long winded but it is a strange problem. The workaround is to destroy the dpool/GroupWS/Integration file system and recreate as a regular directory un GroupWS. But i was hoping to be able to use fle systems in this way for snapshot ease. Any ideas? Thanks, Doug -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
