Separate /var on Solaris Zone ?
Zfs..
Is it possible to add/build /var to a Solaris local zone as a separate
filesystem/dataset to root ( / )
TIA
Ian Collins
problems with upgrades.
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Charles Lindsey
Of course it works. I have always done it, and would regard it as plain
stupid to do otherwise. The root partition should be a amall space
containing only the essentials. /var should be somewhere where it can grow
arbitrarily large and even overflow without breaking anything else.
I also have it useful to have a separate partition /var-nodump, to which
everything on /var that you can afford to lose can be soft-linked. Then
your incremental dumps can be kept down to a reasonable size.
Contrarisiwse, the genuine root stuff should be the first priority for
backing up.
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Ian Collins
> In <6trv8uF...@mid.individual.net> Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Zfs.. wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to add/build /var to a Solaris local zone as a separate
>>> filesystem/dataset to root ( / )
>>>
>> It is possible, but I don't think it's supported so you might run into
>> problems with upgrades.
>
> Of course it works. I have always done it, and would regard it as plain
> stupid to do otherwise. The root partition should be a amall space
> containing only the essentials. /var should be somewhere where it can grow
> arbitrarily large and even overflow without breaking anything else.
>
are moot if your zone root is a decent sized partition. Creating a
separate partition for zone vars is just silly.
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Ian Collins