Tony Marshall
2007-Oct-11 11:13 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Zone root on a ZFS filesystem and Cloning zones
Hi, Does anyone have an update on the support of having a zones root on a zfs filesystem with Solaris update 4? The only information that I have seen so far is that it was planned for late 2007 or early 2008. Also I was hoping to use the snapshot and clone capabilities of zfs to clone zones as a faster deployment method for new zones, is this supported and if not when is it likely to be supported? Thanks Tony
Dick Davies
2007-Oct-11 11:53 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Zone root on a ZFS filesystem and Cloning zones
No, they aren''t (i.e. zoneadm clone on S10u4 doesn''t use zfs snapshots). I have a workaround I''m about to blog, the gist of which is make the ''template'' zone on zfs boot, configure, etc. zonecfg -z template detach zfs snapshot tank/zones/template at clean zfs clone tank/zones/template at clean tank/zones/clone zonecfg -z clone ''create -a /zones/clone'' zoneadm -z clone attach Will post the URL once I pull my finger out. On 11/10/2007, Tony Marshall <tony.marshall at sun.com> wrote:> Hi, > > Does anyone have an update on the support of having a zones root on a > zfs filesystem with Solaris update 4? The only information that I have > seen so far is that it was planned for late 2007 or early 2008. > > Also I was hoping to use the snapshot and clone capabilities of zfs to > clone zones as a faster deployment method for new zones, is this > supported and if not when is it likely to be supported?-- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/
Lori Alt
2007-Oct-11 23:58 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Zone root on a ZFS filesystem and Cloning zones
I''m working on getting an answer to this. We''re looking at whether some of the changes to LiveUpgrade to enable zfs boot can be broken out and delivered separately to enable upgrade of zone roots on zfs. I hope to have more answers next week. Lori Tony Marshall wrote:> Hi, > > Does anyone have an update on the support of having a zones root on a > zfs filesystem with Solaris update 4? The only information that I have > seen so far is that it was planned for late 2007 or early 2008. > > Also I was hoping to use the snapshot and clone capabilities of zfs to > clone zones as a faster deployment method for new zones, is this > supported and if not when is it likely to be supported? > > Thanks > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
Dick Davies
2007-Oct-12 14:11 UTC
[zfs-discuss] Zone root on a ZFS filesystem and Cloning zones
On 11/10/2007, Dick Davies <rasputnik at gmail.com> wrote:> No, they aren''t (i.e. zoneadm clone on S10u4 doesn''t use zfs snapshots). > > I have a workaround I''m about to blogHere it is - hopefully be of some use: http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2007/10/11/fast-zone-cloning-on-solaris-10 -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/