this is old but interesting blog on sparse zone in opensolaris / solaris 11
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~bmiller/blog/2010/03/15/sparse-zones-not-supported-in-opensolaris/
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Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D
On Sep 7, 2011, at 7:42, Paul Kraus <p...@kraus-haus.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mike Gerdts <mike.ger...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>> 3)zfs dataset requirement
>>
>> How does this negatively impact you or other users? As of Solaris 11
>> Express, this requirement means that you have to run 'zfs create' once
>> to create a ZFS filesystem that will be the parent of an arbitrry number
>> of zones.
>>
>> I personally would not advocate a configuration where each zone is not
>> on its own file system because a disk hog in one zone can deny service
>> to other zones.
>
> Be very careful here. If you allocate all of your Zones from a
> single zpool and do NOT use quotas (and reservations) you can have one
> Zone run the others out of disk space. Does the automatic (under the
> covers) zfs create in Solaris 11 also automate setting reasonable
> quotas and reservations ?
>
> I don't want folks who are less familiar with ZFS to make that mistake.
>
>> While I was working for a Fortune 10 company and
>> introduced zones early in Solaris 10's life, I ensured that every zone
>> had its own file system on a SVM soft partition. This approach worked
>> well for many years, but took a significant amount of effort to
>> automate. The integration of ZFS and Zones simplifies this type of
>> architecture greatly.
>
> We have used almost exclusively sparse root zones; for the space
> efficiency, the global patching model, and the security of a read only
> OS. I will be sorry to see the option of a sparse root zone go away.
>
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