Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:08:46 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best approach to jails + zfs Message-ID: <20130125190846.3a465d358e5abd273aa7ca79@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <193A9ED3-53E5-474B-AECA-4B2652356283@todoo.biz> References: <6951EF94-E2BD-4B03-9F42-EA94BD23B718@todoo.biz> <20130125174152.385948bbc82410a3eecc4472@sohara.org> <193A9ED3-53E5-474B-AECA-4B2652356283@todoo.biz>
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 bsd <bsd@todoo.biz> wrote: > Le 25 janv. 2013 à 18:41, Steve O'Hara-Smith a écrit : > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:25:06 +0100 > > bsd <bsd@todoo.biz> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I wanted to have the point of view of the community on the best > >> approach in order to handle a quite large system with couple of jails > >> (shouldn't have more than 5 to 10). Whole system is based on zfs. I'll > >> use this as a backup server. > > > > You might like the sysutils/ezjail port - I use it for a very > > similar purpose and find it works well. > > > > -- > > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > > > > I am a bit skeptical on the third party script approach. > > How stable has It been ? Rock solid - for me YMMV of course. The underpinnings are quite straightforward so it should be easy to fix anything that does go astray. > ZFS has introduced a new challenge, but now that I have understood (more > or less) how It is working, I found It really great! Just trying to > figure out the best way to use both Jail + ZFS. > > But I might re-consider my position… Does ezjail comply with the latest > FreeBSD 9 / 9.1 advances in jail / ZFS management improvement ? I'm using it on a 9,1 box to admin a bunch of 9.1 jails. It doesn't require ZFS but it can use it (along with a variety of other storage options). It uses standard ZFS commands to do it's work with ZFS. It's just a shell script program (albeit a 1500 line one), I might have written a simpler, cruder one myself had it not existed and worked. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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