Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:29:38 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> To: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Jails and unionfs Message-ID: <63df6e06-ebac-fe44-ca70-5d2a9e78967b@gjunka.com>
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I have been using unionfs to host jails for quite a while now and in general they work as expected, apart from three issues. The setup is as below (example for one jail dev2): _*jail.conf*_ exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"; exec.clean; mount.devfs; mount.fstab = "/usr/local/etc/fstab/$name"; devfs_ruleset = 4; path = "/j/$name"; host.hostname = "$name.*myhost*.*mydomain*.com"; exec.consolelog = "/var/log/jail/$name"; dev2 { ip4.addr = 192.168.1.71; interface = lagg0; } _*/usr/local/etc/fstab/dev2*_ /j/_ro3 /j/dev2 nullfs ro 0 0 /j/_dev2 /j/dev2 unionfs rw,noatime 0 0 devfs /j/dev2/dev devfs rw,ruleset=4 0 0 _*df gives*_ tank1/j/_dev2 1198584120 131255 1198452864 0% /j/_dev2 /j/_ro3 1198722545 269680 1198452864 0% /j/dev2 <above>:/j/_dev2 2397306665 1198853800 1198452864 50% /j/dev2 devfs 1 1 0 100% /j/dev2/dev devfs 1 1 0 100% /j/dev2/dev _*zfs list | grep dev2*_ tank1/j/_dev2 128M 1.12T 128M /j/_dev2 As can be seen I need to mount devfs twice, once in jail.conf and once in the jail's fstab, otherwise it isn't mounted at all. That's the first (smaller) issue. The second issue is that the disks are not mounted/unmounted automatically when I start/stop the jail. To make sure that all disks are mounted properly after starting a jail I need to: mount -F /usr/local/etc/fstab/dev2 -a When stopping the jail sometimes the disks are unmounted but sometimes I have to: umount -F /usr/local/etc/fstab/dev2 -a But the third, most annoying issue is that if I forget to unmount all disks after stopping a jail and then I start the jail, the unionfs is mounted twice. Once that happens and I need to stop the jail, unmounting disks for that jail causes kernel panic. Does anyone have experience with that setup? Are those issues known and are there any possible fixes or workarounds? Grzegorz
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