Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:45:47 +0100 From: Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Move jails hard way to iocage Message-ID: <YF5H%2B7bRJBSIurMb@mithril.foucry.net> In-Reply-To: <5ce88d31-5372-4d26-8d35-d13b73ec7b71@www.fastmail.com> References: <YF2pJBKE4VaLYVM2@mithril.foucry.net> <df8f98a1-1a99-4623-a7c1-02755d3327df@www.fastmail.com> <5ce88d31-5372-4d26-8d35-d13b73ec7b71@www.fastmail.com>
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Le vendredi 26 mars 2021 à 09:00:24 (-0400), Dan Langille à écrit: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, at 5:34 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, at 5:28 AM, Jacques Foucry wrote: > > > Hello Friends, > > > > > > I run many jails, configured in the "hard way" (ie `/etc/jail.conf` file) and > > > I would like to move them into iocage. > > > > > > I can't find any help on the Internet (may be I did search corretly). > > > > > > Did some own have a pointer or a how-to? > > > > > > Thanks in advance for your time and advises, > > > > https://dan.langille.org/2021/02/28/converting-an-iocage-jail-to-a-vanilla-jail/ > > > Sorry, I misread, and though you were moving to jails. No problem :-) > > This is from ezjail to iocage. Might help. > > https://dan.langille.org/2019/04/08/converting-thin-jails-to-thick-jails/ Sure it's help. > Yes, I have been moving from iocage to vanilla jails. I find it better suits my use > cases, specifically my FreshPorts jails which contain zfs file systems which it > must occasionally issue a 'zfs rollback'. I also like that my jails start or stop > faster. The additional work I need to do relates to jail creation (creating the > file systems etc). For that, I'm using https://github.com/mkjail/mkjail - in fact, > this morning I am using that to update several jails. > > e.g. [dvl@r720-02:~/src/mkjail/src] $ sudo bin/mkjail upgrade -v 12.2-RELEASE -j nginx01 Interesting, may be I will reconsider switching… > > After reading FreeBSD Mastery: Jails I saw how straight forward a jail.conf entry can > be. https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmjail I read it, but there's no words about VNET and vanilla jails. Seems a little bit more difficult and all the jails must be switch at the same time (as I saw from my small experience). But I read to that you are not very happy with VNET jails :-) Btw, it's very hard to make my own opion with all the different experiences I read. :-) That said, and off topic, thanks for your blog, your shared experiences, FreshPorts and all you do for the community. -- Jacques Foucry
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