[csw-maintainers] Bugreport on alternatives with NFS-shared /opt/csw

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
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>> that may be one way to do it. However, It "feels" to me, to be better
>> to be more consistent about the user-touching implementation.
>> By that I mean, it might be nice if possible to consistently have the
>> symlink be 'directly' to the target, whether NFS shared or otherwise.
>...
>
>> That has the additional benefit that you do not have to do any
>> "special configuration" if you want to do mixed modes.
>> ...
>>
>> rsync -a /opt/csw/.   nfs-master:/opt/csw
>>  (or to any other machine, maybe just a "client" instead of nfs server!)
>>
>> and have it "work right" after copying.
>
> This sucks as it is in direct opposition to sparse zones.

Could you remind us as to how, please?


> We get
> in so much trouble with this that I am constantly asking myself
> if it is worth it.

By "this", do you mean "alternatives"?