ZFS MFC heads up

Philipp Wuensche cryx-freebsd at h3q.com
Sun May 24 14:49:06 UTC 2009


Kirk Strauser wrote:
> 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.

And ezjail supports managing jails in ZFS filesystems in the CVS version
since yesterday.

greetings,
Philipp




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