Jails creation

[Tonix (Antonio Nati)]

Miroslav Lachman ha scritto:
> It is not true. Jail command does not requires compilation, nor 
> exactly same version. I am running 6.x version jail on system with 7.2 
> and you can run 32bit (i386) jail on 64bit (amd64) system.
I did not know, and this is very useful to me also. I supposed, as the 
jail kernel is a "fake" kernel, both systems should have the same 
version, but if I can mix it's a great opportunity.

> The `jail` command is there just for starting the jail, not for 
> building it. The jail even does not need to be a full installed system!
> There are too many different scenarios with jails, that there can not 
> be "one command to satisfy them all".
> It is up to administrator to prepare the best environment for his/her 
> needs.
>
> If you need the full copy of the base system, you can do it really 
> easily (by tar as was suggested by Vincet Hoffman or dump & restore), 
> and if you do it for each jail, you loose the benefits of shared 
> read-only base directory (you will need more disk space and more memory).
>
> If you do not want to spend some time by compilation, you can install 
> the jail from installation media you already have from system install.
>
> cd /some/media/7.2-RELEASE/base
> mkdir /path/to/myjail
> setenv DESTDIR /path/to/myjail
> sh install.sh
>
> That's all! It is too simple in contrast to source build or manually 
> copy something from base.
>

Thanks! In this way it is a lot more easier to setup and/or customize.

Tonino

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
        Inter at zioni            Interazioni di Antonio Nati 
   http://www.interazioni.it      tonix at interazioni.it           
------------------------------------------------------------