[csw-users] NFS shared /opt anyone?

[Gary Algier]

Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Sat Oct 02 21:57:12 -0400 2010:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>> So, if you're sharing a single install point of CSW packages over
>> NFS, we'd love to know.  It would also be interesting to know if
>> you've recently abandoned this approach for machine-local /opt.
> 
> *crickets*...So..nobody is still doing this or nobody wants to admit
> it?  :)
> 
> Private replies are fine too.  We really are interested in knowing
> whether sites are still doing this.  So far I've had only a single
> (negative) response.  Thanks Joseph!
> 
> Thanks
> -Ben
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I don't do the NFS mounts any more, but I do something similar.  I have 
tried to share /opt read only via loopback mounts from a Solaris global 
zone into a sparse zone.  If I can make it work, it can save a lot of 
space.  Unfortunately not all packages work well with sparse zones.

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