[RFC] Skeleton jail (rc.d feature proposal)

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Thu Feb 19 17:16:31 PST 2009


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Hi, Bjoern,

Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
[...]
> I do not have the following two on most/any of my machines:
> 
>>     usr/src
>>     usr/obj

I agree.

> The correct way to do this I think would leave rc.d/jail untouched and
> (pre-)populate an /etc/fstab.<jname> and use that.

I do not think this is a very good approach for this use case.

Making it an rc.conf option, enables the following tasks as a one-liner
change:
 - Enabling/Disabling skeleton jail (how will the system perform if I
have the template directories read-only?);
 - Switching template root (what will happen if switch from 7.1 userland
to 7.2 userland?);
 - Change mount points within all jails.

I do admit that all these can be done with scripts though.

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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