[OpenAFS-devel] Solaris 10 local zone support?

[Coy Hile]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Robert Banz wrote:

>
> Coy Hile wrote:
> > Is anybody working on the ability to have an OpenAFS client running inside
> > a non-global zone in Solaris 10 (or later)?  I'm ending up wtih syscalls
> > failing.  See output from afsd -verbose (with a handfull of other options
> > also so that it doesn't try to write to a LOFS-mounted directory) below:
> >
>
> The only way I could get it to work was to run AFS in the global zone
> and mount it via a loopback in the client zones.  It works ok for
> general file access, however, since the loopback-mounted AFS doesn't
> look like "real" to the AFS tools such as 'fs', they don't work :(
>
> -rob
>

Damn.  I guess we're in the same boat as people who want an NFS server in
a non-global zone -- whatever specific privs are needed for AFS client
startup are squashed by the zones framework.

Is there any interest here in figuring out exactly what we'd need to do
to make it work (as a client only, not a server)?  I'm very new to looking
at the source tree, so starting out on this on my own would get nowhere fast.

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