[OpenIndiana-discuss] local zones and local users

[Maurilio Longo]

Hi Bob,

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
> Normally one tries really hard to avoid putting any actual data in the 
> zone since this becomes dead weight (or baggage) whenever the zone is 
> cloned and going back to an earlier snapshot reverts both the zone root 
> and the data.  Instead you have the zone do a loopback mount of a 
> directory in the global zone, and apparently one can also do a zfs mount 
> of a filesystem if that is desired.  For security reasons, zones are not 
> normally allowed to do their own mounts (requires a filesystem mount 
> privilege).
> 

thanks for the hint, this is what I was looking for.

Now it is clear why nearly all of the examples I've found so far were so 
"different" from my way of thinking  :)

Best regards.

Maurilio.


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