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Re: [pcp] pcp updates: dynamic metrics, pmdapapi, containers, qa

To: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] pcp updates: dynamic metrics, pmdapapi, containers, qa
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:40:55 -0500
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>, pcp <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi, Jeff -

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:27:43PM -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> [...]
> [On solaris], the global zone has access to all the state of the non-global 
> zones.
> E.g., the list of mounts includes *all* the mounts across all the zones; the
> list of processes includes *all* processes on the system.  (If you are in a
> non-global zone, you only see processes/mounts/etc. related to the zone you
> are in.)  [...]

On the surface, that's quite a lot like container-hosts ("global
zone") vs. containers ("non-global zones") on linux, and the model
in development in pcp should manage to fit that.

- FChE

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