Full zones are just as good as sparse ones when it comes to containing workloads, they just mean you don't wind up in a sticky situation when some bozotic app turns out to need to do something to /usr.
The only advantages I'm seeing with sparse zones is deployment time and disk space. Mostly those two things matter less than flexibility. Deployment only takes 10 minutes for a full zone anyway.
Do yourself a favour and build yourself a Sol10U8 VM somewhere to play with. It'll be worth the effort. IIRC you need to do the install in text mode (or "text in an xterm" mode) rather than using the GUI if you want to install on ZFS root, the assumption is that Serious Cat has Serious Jumpstart Infrastructure so the interactive installer is unimportant.
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Date: 2010-02-10 10:51 am (UTC)The only advantages I'm seeing with sparse zones is deployment time and disk space. Mostly those two things matter less than flexibility. Deployment only takes 10 minutes for a full zone anyway.
Do yourself a favour and build yourself a Sol10U8 VM somewhere to play with. It'll be worth the effort. IIRC you need to do the install in text mode (or "text in an xterm" mode) rather than using the GUI if you want to install on ZFS root, the assumption is that Serious Cat has Serious Jumpstart Infrastructure so the interactive installer is unimportant.