On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Jim Klimov wrote: > > here is the output of df: > > > > chris@Jubal:~$ df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > rpool/ROOT/openindiana > > 134G 2.1G 132G 2% / > > rpool/ROOT/openindiana/var > > 132G 400M 132G 1% /var > > okay, so this part seems to be a pretty standard split, probably helped > by the setup wizard? I think it supports making separate /var datasets.
As far as I remember I split if off by hand myself, after installing. The thing is, it doesn't work on the new mahcine I'm trying that on. However, you may have just convinced me NOT to. I have to admit, I'm essentially comming from Solaris 8 (I've run some 10 machines, but not used zfs extensives and haven't used Zones at all). However I think I finally understand what boot environments do, why the filesystems are consolidated, and what package management has to do with it. > What sort of software do you have in /usr/local? If it is packaged > (home-brewn, or from collections like SunFreeware), this should really > be part of the root filesystem (fs-tree as of now) and ultimately it > is individual for each BE managed by packaging and beadm. /usr/local is historically anything I've compiled. Until now I've just done configure && make && make install , but plan to use IPS on these new machines, and I now see why having usr/local on the same filesystem may be a good idea. ZFS changes so many assumptions. The good thing is, it also makes it easy to split things off later if it looks like a good idea. Can zones be easily copied to other machines, like VM images ? ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [email protected] -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
