File Systems and Non-Global Zones

This section provides information about file system issues on an Oracle Solaris system with zones installed. Issues include using the zone as an NFS server or client, mounting and traversing mounted file systems, and file system restrictions that are specific to zones.

Each zone has its own section of the file system hierarchy, rooted at a directory known as the zone root. Processes in the zone can access files only in the file system hierarchy that is located under the zone root. The chroot utility can be used in a zone, but only to restrict the process to a root path within the zone. For more information about chroot, see the chroot(8) man page.