The file systems that are available in the oracle solaris 11 release are very similar to the oracle solaris 10 file systems. Description solaris 10 patches 14172103 or 14144409 sparc and 14172203 or 14144509 x86 may cause live upgrade lucreate1m to fail on a system configured with zfs root and a separate var file system. Hi all, can you please help me in understanding the lofs file system or point me towards some link which can help. System administration solaris 10 807 release notes.
I want to patch one side of the mirror and keep intact another side safe in case of roll back is required. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system. It is used to contains the list of active process in solaris. The root file system hierarchy is mostly identical to systems running solaris 10 that have a zfs root file system.
The devfs file system is new in solaris 10 and increases system boot performance because only device entries that are needed to boot the system. System administration solaris 10 508 release notes. Now i can start using localeadm to install the locale i need. This limit was raised to 16 terabytes in the solaris 10 os. Being an unixsolaris system surgeon, i expected to operate on him and get him wellshaped with aesthetic body. Solaris liveupgrade is a nice feature of solaris, which lets one upgrade the currently running version of solaris to a new realease or patch it without the need to bring the system into single user mode for a more or less long time. I am trying to get a nfs share on a solaris 10 branded zone. I want to install solaris 10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with procedure. That was easily fixed by commenting out the exclude. The other thing i ran into is it complaining about lofs. The kernel patch associated with the solaris 10 807 update 4 release, 12001114 sparc and 12001214 x86, are the first patches to utilitize deferred activation patching.
A zfs root pool contains a zfs file system with separate directories of system related components, such as etc, usr, and var, that must be available for the system to function correctly. This section describes system administration bugs in solaris 10 os. Zones provides a means of virtualizing operating system services, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system. Each update to ldoms may add additional features and fixes, so it is recommended that the latest updates always be applied. You can add lofs file system mounts from the global zone without rebooting the nonglobal zone. Examples of local file systems on solaris are ufs, zfs, and veritas file system vxfs. In this quick article ill demonstrate how we can easily rename a loopback file system mounted from a global zone to a local zone and also change the zones configuration to make the changes persistent. This example explains how to upgrade an oracle solaris 10 305 system to the oracle solaris 10 106 release.
A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or interacting with the rest. Solaris tips and tricks general it documentation dbsse wiki. This is likely to be the kernel patches associated with future solaris 10 update releases. An example using oracle solaris live upgrade to patch a system 1. Solaris 10 system administration training course part 1. Branded zones are solaris 8 or solaris 9 containers created in a solaris 10 global zone. I have a solaris 10 box that has root file system usage over 80%. Deferredactivation patching requires the loopback file system, lofs in order to complete successfully. Sun alert 102699 a security vulnerability in the solaris.
When you migrate your ufs root file system to a zfs root file system, you must designate an existing zfs storage pool with the p option. The loopback file system lofs the lofs file system lets you create a new virtual file system. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. All netbackup components supported with solaris 10 sparc physical servers are supported in a solaris 10 ldoms control domain and io domain with the exception of bare metal restore server or client. To avoid the system getting into an inconsistent state during patching, lofs loopback mounts are used in the patch s scripts to mount the original objects over the. Hi all, i have solaris 10 configured with two nonglobal zones. Installing the latest version of live upgrade from the update 9 iso. Renaming a lofs type file system as signed to a solaris 10 zone by sahil suri. Local privileged users inside a nonglobal zone may be able to move or rename files which are part of a readonly mounted loopback file system see lofs7fs. A patch consists of files and directories that replace or update existing files and directories. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. How to use lofs to mount a file system creating and. Deferred activation patching system administration.
Deferredactivation patching uses the loopback file system lofs to ensure the stability of the running system. Solaris zones and solaris resource controls combine to create solaris containers. How to share a zfs file system between a global zone and a. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. A security vulnerability in the solaris 10 loopback. These deferredactivation patches handle the large scope of change delivered in kernel patches better. Devfs device file system the devfs is used to manage the namespace of all devices on the system. This is production server, so i can not reboot it anyway.
This concept of utilizing lofs loopback file system mounts was later formalized as deferred activation patching, which is now implemented in the. I tried to find what is taking up all this space but du is not returning any big files directories on root. The solaris upgrade of the boot environment is complete. Find answers to what is lofs file system in solaris 10. This file system is used for the devices directory. Oracle solaris live upgrade has many capabilities but for a simple situation like upgrading a. If you dont care about the signature andor trust the source, use patchadd n patch that 11883336 is a pesky one. In deferred activation patching, a loopback file system, lofs, is used to create a copy of the root file system. Overview of solaris patch types and dependencies oracle. Ensure patches from the relevant list in the appendix section of this document are applied to the pbe choose the solaris 10 508 update 5 or later patch list appropriate for the system. Note that bug fixes for some thirdparty or communitybased software delivered as part of oracle solaris may be provided through package upgrades rather than patches. These deferredactivation patches better handle the large scope of change delivered in feature patches such as kernel patches associated with solaris 10 releases after the solaris 10 305 release.
Solaris 10 operating system local privileged users inside a nonglobal zone may be able to move or rename files which are part of a readonly mounted loopback file system see lofs7fs. Hi after doing a live upgrade from solaris 10 update 8 to solaris 10 update 9 the alternate boot environment i created is no longer bootable. Prepare iso with solaris 10 u11, recommended patch cluster, lu. When patching a solaris 10 x86 live boot environment, kernel patch 11884419 or higher must be active to ensure compatibility with library changes provided in subsequent patches.
Make the transition to the solaris 10 operating system cd package pksa210cs10. In deferred activation patching, a loopback file system, lofs, is used to create a copy of the. For an rman proxy backup snapshot, that type oralce backup should not be expected to work properly with lofs. Oracle solaris 11 file system changes transitioning from. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement.
The os is solaris 10 u8, could anyone provide any idea please 2 replies. For example, if you were to patch a solaris 10 305 system with the latest recommended patch cluster, many of the patches relate to functionality introduced after solaris 10 305, and therefore, patches with the new functionality would fail to install. Article expanding a solaris file system dynamically. Both sparcbased and x86based versions of solaris are covered in this course. For customers that do not wish to avail of extended support and would like to access the last recommended patchsets created prior to the beginning of extended support for solaris 10, the january 2018 critical patch updates cpus for solaris 10 will remain available to those with premier operating system support. All file systems are mounted on global zone and data file systems are mounted on nonglobal zone as lofs.
Renaming a lofs type file system assigned to a solaris 10. I want to patch one side of the mirror and keep intact another side safe in case of. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Mount lofs file system to running solaris 10 zone how to mount a loopback file system to a running solaris 10 zone i. The set of patches is applicable to all of these solaris 10 releases. Solaris 10 operating system local privileged users inside a nonglobal zone may be able to move or rename files which are part of a readonly mounted loopback file system see lofs 7fs.
Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6366432 date of resolved release 01feb2007 impact. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. This procedure uses the zonecfg command to add an lofs mount of the global zone exportdatafiles file system to the myzone configuration. Other products such as oracle solaris cluster, oracle solaris studio, oracle database, etc. Comparing source boot environment file systems with the file systems you. Deferredactivation patching uses the loopback file system lofs to ensure the. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail. I want to install solaris10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with. Potentially problematic solaris 10 patches oracle solaris blog. In a nonglobal zone with inherited file systems, you check with the pkgchk command for information about a package in any of the removed patches. The same solaris 10 patch can be applied to the solaris 10 305 release, the solaris 10 106 release, solaris 10 606 release, and so on.
If a native full root solaris 10 container is currently using lofs for zpools on a solaris 10 update 9 global zone. Deferred activation patching requires the loopback file system lofs in order. If you have ufs mirror for root filesystem, you need to split mirror and. Netbackup support for oracle solaris virtualization. Chapter 25 about packages and patches on a solaris system with. Unable to backup loop back file systems lofs in solaris. This filesystem may be shared with the global zone, which would result in the files being removed from the global zone also. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system.
Scsa 200 and scsa 202 exam material included with clear explanation performing mount and unmount. Nfs server on solaris 10 branded zone unix and linux forums. He submitted some patches to improve relatime, and noted about atime. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. This is having zfs file system and 10 sparseroot zones are there. The operating system will be oracle solaris 10 sunos 5. One very useful purpose of it is that you can take a cdrom image file.
In the example below, im mounting the the lofs file system as readonly so the nonglobal zone cant modify the contents. I have the solaris 10 iso mounted in the zone without making changes to the configuration file. Deferred activation patching will only be specified in patches which require it. This modification affects the installation of these patches on any solaris 10. Disk and filesystems management in solaris softpanorama. Therefore, if you are patching an old solaris 10 x86 system which is below this kernel patch level, you will need to reboot the system after applying 11884419 or higher.
A zfs root pool contains a zfs file system with separate directories of systemrelated components, such as etc, usr, and var, that must be available for the system to function correctly. You can share a file system between the global zone and nonglobal zones by using lofs mounts. Following this release are a set of releases such as solaris 10 106, solaris 10 606, solaris 10 807, and so on. Students will have access to both sparc and x86based solaris servers to perform their labs. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches. You use the patchrm command to remove patches that you just recently applied.
Solaris 10 system admin part i sol100 5 day this 5day course covers the essential administration tasks for sun system administrators. In the global zone, you apply patches for the solaris 10 zone system by using the patchadd command. I wanted to share a zfs file system, managed in the global zone, in another zone. It covers all basic workstation administration functions, with full handson experience at all stages. This utilities modification affects the installation of these patches on any solaris 10 release. From what ive read, i understand that i could either loopback mount the zfs file system in the nonglobal zone and in this case the mountpoint property must be legacy, or mount via nfs the file system in. A solaris recommended patchset to bind them all oracle.
The solaris 10 containers administration course provides a practical, handson, guided experience working with suns virtualization capabilities, collectively known as solaris containers. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. I have added 4 luns of 100 gb each and still not able to extend a file system. For rman streaming backups, lofs should not matter. There are some situations where this loopback mount is superior to a symbolic link, for example ro option can be set during the mount, limiting the damages that can be done.