Move jails hard way to iocage

[Lars Liedtke]

Most of iocage settings are the same as jail settings. Sometimes the
name is a bit different, but much slightly though.

Am 31.03.21 um 05:29 schrieb Daniel Stevenson:
> On Friday, March 26th, 2021 at 15:45, Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd at foucry.net> wrote:
>
>> 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 at 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).
> I just finished the book; it does indeed talk about vanilla VNET jails.
> There's a section in Chapter 9 titled "Standard VNET Jails."  It might
> be worth another look.
>
>> 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.
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