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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:22:39 -0500
From:      Eric Borisch <eborisch@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Raynsford <list+org.freebsd.virtualization@io7m.com>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Read-only view of a ZFS filesystem inside a bhyve guest?
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In-Reply-To: <20180427174341.03373bc8@almond.int.arc7.info>
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I use NFS for (*nix) guests, and SMB for Windows guests; both work well,
and can be restricted to specific IPs / ranges to help minimize security
concerns.


On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Mark Raynsford via freebsd-virtualization
<freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm looking to do what the subject says: I have an existing ZFS
> filesystem (/storage/xyz) and I'd like to provide a read-only view of
> the filesystem to a set of bhyve guests. The guests in this case could
> be solely FreeBSD guests, but if there's a pleasant way to allow for
> OpenBSD or Linux guests, I'd like that.
>
> I'm essentially looking to move some jail-based infrastructure to bhyve
> guests. With the jails, I have a ZFS filesystem on the host that's
> mounted read-only inside some of the jails using nullfs. I'm not sure
> if there's something analogous for bhyve guests.
>
> I've looked at NFS, but this seems like overkill and possibly hard to
> secure. Same applies to Samba. sshfs might be an option, but I'd really
> prefer to have as few daemons listening on the host machine as possible
> for security reasons.
>
> --
> Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com
>
>



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