Multiple Directories for Jails

[Lord Alabattai]

On 1/29/07, Karl Fischer <kmf at fischer.org.za> wrote:
>
> On 29 Jan 2007, at 5:04 PM, Björn König wrote:
>
> > Karl Fischer schrieb:
> >> Hi
> >> I'm a n00b to freebsd and jails is there away that I can specify
> >> multiple Directories in the jails.conf ?
> >> JAIL_HOME="/data1; /data2" etc.
> >
> > What are you trying to do or what do you expect?
> >
> > A file system hierarchy can only have one root directory. You
> > probably want to play with unionfs. You can read about its concept
> > here: http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS
> >
> > Regards Björn
>
> Hi
> Basically the Drive that the Jails are hosted on is running out of
> space.
> By adding another mounted Partition I will have more space.
>
> If I add a new Drive to the Machine ...
> mount it under /data2 can I just stop the jails and copy them across
> modify the jails.conf and start it up ?
> I guess the best procedure should be to back them up and restore them
> there ?


If both partitions are of equal or similiar size, software RAID might be a
good choice.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html

Best regards,
Alabattai

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