ZFS MFC heads up

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Thu May 21 19:46:43 UTC 2009


On Thursday 21 May 2009 09:12:14 am Louis Mamakos wrote:

> Any pointers to running multiple jails with ZFS?  I was looking for
> something like a union-mount capability for ZFS.  I don't necessarily
> need a jail to run divergent /bin, /usr/local, etc. just the
> isolation.  Making a clone doesn't exactly do the same thing..

FWIW, I love sysutils/ezjail.  It uses nullfs to mount many jails on top of 
the same read-only base system, and provides a way ("ezjail-admin update -i") 
to upgrade that base system with installworld.
-- 
Kirk Strauser


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