HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.01 Administrator's Guide

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A system container with a shared file system subtype has a smaller disk footprint and is faster to
create as the system binary directories /usr and /sbin are shared with the global view. It is ideal
for application deployment that does not require write access to /usr and /sbin and the software
version can be in sync with the global view version.
A system container with a private filesystem subtype provides write access to all the directories except
/stand. This allows the container to have different version of software (except kernel component). It
is ideal for application deployment that requires write access to /usr and /sbin.
See 15.5.1.5 Software management behavior for file system subtypes for the differences in software
management for the two types of containers.
15.1.2 Mounting file system
You must perform disk and partition administration from the global view. Typically, these partitions
are specified in the global /etc/fstab file and are mounted and available at system boot time.
15.1.2.1 Making the container root path mountable
The container root path /var/hpsrp/container_name can either be a directory on an existing
filesystem or a physical filesystem mount of a disk or its partition. If the root path is a mount point,
then the root path must have a corresponding entry in the global /etc/fstab file and it must be
mounted before you create the container.
15.1.2.2 Adding a new mount for the system container
A container specific /var/hpsrp/container_name/etc/fstab file is provisioned in every
container. You can configure the entries in the container specific /etc/fstab file to do nfs mounts,
lofs mounts, hfs, vxfs and cdfs mounts within the container. The entries will be automatically mounted
when the container is started and unmounted when the container is stopped.
To perform a physical filesystem mount of a disk or its partition within the system container, you must
explicitly provision the corresponding block device (for example, /dev/disk/disk10) and the