Re: zones, disks & sds slices



On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Jerome Quelin wrote:

with solaris 10 comes the zones facility. in order to segregate zones,
i'd like to create a filesystem of its own for each of the zones' root
filesystem.

That's not strictly necessary, although I can see why you'd want to
do it (limiting the amoutn of space used by each zone for /).

current disks are now 73gb+, but still only 7 slices... if one count /,
/var, swap and metadb, this leaves only 3 slices on the disks.

Don't separate out /var; that'll save you a slice.

are you using soft partitions? since i'm using a two-way mirrors, this
would force me to create the following metadevices (for example):
d30 -m d100 d110
d100 1 1 d120
d110 1 1 d130
d120 -p c1t0d0s5 -o 1 -b 8389656
d130 -p c1t1d0s5 -o 1 -b 8389656

==> which is quite clumsy - 5 metadevices for a lone usable metadevice!

Rather than doing that, you could make the soft partitions from a mirrored
device. So:

d30 -m d100 d110
d100 1 1 c1t0d0s5
d110 1 1 c1t1d0s5
d120 -p d30 -o 1 -b 8389656

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