zfs discuss - Jul 2007 - do we support zonepath on UFS formated ZFS volume

Hi, ZFS experts,

 From ZFS release notes, " Solaris 10 6/06 and Solaris 10 11/06: Do Not 
Place the Root File
Systemof a Non-Global Zone on ZFS. The zonepath of a non-global zone 
should not reside on
ZFS for this release. This action might result in patching problems and 
possibly prevent the system
from being upgraded to a later Solaris 10 update release."

So my question is, do we support zonepath on UFS formated ZFS volume ?

I am asking because my customer wants to get away from SVM due to 
potential problems of metaimport
issues in BCV or shadow image. They claim that UFS formated ZFS volume 
would solve it.

To be specific,

The question is surrounding emulated volumes.  Assume that you
       zfs create -V vol1 2gb pool1/vol1
       newfs /dev/zvol/rdsk/pool1/vol1              (ufs)
       mount -F ufs /dev/zvol/dsk/pool1/vol1 /export/zonehome

Nevertheless, can /export/zonehome be used  for zonepath ?

My 2nd question is, when are we going to support zonepath on ZFS ?

Thanks for a prompt reply.

Hans

>  From ZFS release notes, " Solaris 10 6/06 and Solaris 10 11/06: Do
Not
> Place the Root File
> Systemof a Non-Global Zone on ZFS. The zonepath of a non-global zone 
> should not reside on
> ZFS for this release. This action might result in patching problems and 
> possibly prevent the system
> from being upgraded to a later Solaris 10 update release."
I believe this is due to to patches and the installer not understanding
mount issues.
> So my question is, do we support zonepath on UFS formated ZFS volume ?
I would assume that you''d have to have it explicitly mounted all the
time.  I don''t believe that would be a problem.  
> My 2nd question is, when are we going to support zonepath on ZFS ?
I think when more of the system installer logic understands ZFS, then
the zones (and the packaging/patching issues it brings) will follow
along as well.

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