Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:46:20 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using zfs and unionfs together, does zfs need to be extended? Message-ID: <4872566C.6000206@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <18546.20476.590665.29995@almost.alerce.com> References: <18546.20476.590665.29995@almost.alerce.com>
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George Hartzell wrote: > I'd like to be able to set up a large-ish number of very similar > jails, with a minimum of fuss and take advantage of zfs' cool > features. I'd like to use unionfs to do this, but zfs' lack of > whiteout support seems to make it impossible. [jump to the bottom if > you want to skip the setup and get to the questions] > > It seems like the most popular way to set up jails these days uses > read-only nullfs mounts of a base system and symbolic links into a > read-write nullfs mount for each jail's specific stuff (etc, > /usr/local, etc...). The "ZFS way" is to just clone your jail filesystem into each jail instance. Kris
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