Is it possible to access a jailed zfs filesystem outside the jail?

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 02:50:42 UTC 2014


On Mar 20, 2014 7:05 PM, "Rainer Duffner" <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> to make backup simpler, I'd like to be able to mount the filesystems I
> dedicated to jails on the host as well (beats the purpose a bit, I
> know).
> I only need read-only access (for backup).
>
> Is that possible?

Snapshot the  filesystem. Then you can either backup from the
.zfs/snapshot/[snapname]/ directory, or manually mount the snapshot
somewhere else.


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