Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Results of Sharing and Mounting File Systems in Trusted Extensions

In Trusted Extensions, shared files can ease administration, and provide efficiency and speed. MAC is always in force.

  • Share single-level datasets from a labeled zone, over NFS – As in Oracle Solaris, shared directories ease administration. For example, you can install the man pages for Oracle Solaris on one system, and share the man page directory with other systems.

  • Share multilevel datasets from the global zone, over LOFS – LOFS-mounted datasets provide efficiency and speed when moving files from one label to another. Files are moved within the dataset, so no i/o operations are used.

  • Share multilevel datasets from the global zone, over NFS – An NFS server can share a multilevel dataset that contains files at many labels to many clients. Such a configuration eases administration and provides a single location for file distribution. You do not require a server at a particular label to serve clients at that label.