And what should I use instead? I just updated to NV-28 from S10+Zfs, and I''m trying to recreate my filesystems. Are containers gone? are they discouraged? did something else replace them?
On 12/6/05, Kyle McDonald <Kyle.McDonald at sun.com> wrote:> And what should I use instead? > > I just updated to NV-28 from S10+Zfs, and I''m trying to recreate my > filesystems. > Are containers gone? are they discouraged? did something else replace them?Hi If you are mean zones, that are often called containers, they are not gone. They are only enhanced by ZFS, I have blogged about the power of merging ZFS and zones in the following blog entires. http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/11/zones-on-ufs-vs-zfs.html http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/12/opengrok-zfs-linux-2612.html James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com> _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
Kyle McDonald wrote:> And what should I use instead? > > I just updated to NV-28 from S10+Zfs, and I''m trying to recreate my > filesystems. > Are containers gone? are they discouraged? did something else replace > them?What used to be a "container" in ZFS (S10+SUNWzfs) is gone after nv-27. Now, just use a filesystem to "contain" filesystems (filesystems within a filesystem). Lin
Kyle McDonald wrote:> And what should I use instead? > > I just updated to NV-28 from S10+Zfs, and I''m trying to recreate my > filesystems. > Are containers gone? are they discouraged? did something else replace > them?Yep, containers are gone - so i guess we officially discouraged them by removing them. They existed before we integrated into nevada. This is partially talked about in: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=15457㱡 eric
eric kustarz wrote:> Kyle McDonald wrote: > >> And what should I use instead? >> >> I just updated to NV-28 from S10+Zfs, and I''m trying to recreate my >> filesystems. >> Are containers gone? are they discouraged? did something else replace >> them? > > > > Yep, containers are gone - so i guess we officially discouraged them > by removing them. They existed before we integrated into nevada. > > This is partially talked about in: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=15457㱡 >That mentions that they''re gone, and not coming back, (something said they could be implemented as a property though?) I''m still curious though as to why they were discouraged? What was wrong with the concept? -Kyle
Kyle McDonald wrote:> eric kustarz wrote: > >> Kyle McDonald wrote: >> >>> And what should I use instead? >>> >>> I just updated to NV-28 from S10+Zfs, and I''m trying to recreate my >>> filesystems. >>> Are containers gone? are they discouraged? did something else >>> replace them? >> >> >> >> >> Yep, containers are gone - so i guess we officially discouraged them >> by removing them. They existed before we integrated into nevada. >> >> This is partially talked about in: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=15457㱡 >> > That mentions that they''re gone, and not coming back, (something said > they could be implemented as a property though?) > > I''m still curious though as to why they were discouraged? What was > wrong with the concept? > > -Kyle >Check this thread out: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=16497䁱 eric