[OmniOS-discuss] Wiki change

Nikola M minikola at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 07:23:53 UTC 2015


On 06/ 3/15 01:17 PM, Graham Stephens wrote:
> I am going off the Oracle docs here:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbebi/index.html
>
> which state:
>
> "Note that adding a raw volume to a zone has implicit security risks, 
> even if the volume doesn't correspond to a physical device. In 
> particular, the zone administrator could create malformed file systems 
> that would panic the system when a mount is attempted."
>
> It may be overkill, but considering my initial problem was one of a 
> system crash, it stuck in my head.

It is for Zones, right? Not to let them use rdsk.
On the other hand I need to use raw disk for Virtualbox to make vmdk out 
of zfs volume. (and for kvm?)
Wonder about recommendations for exporting volume to ISCSI.



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