Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:44:16 +0200 From: Philipp Wuensche <cryx-freebsd@h3q.com> To: freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: new rc.d/jail changes (templating fstab entries and rootdir) Message-ID: <44C239C0.1090103@h3q.com> In-Reply-To: <1153313706.70633.8.camel@mayday.esat.net> References: <1151336698.39710.23.camel@mayday.esat.net> <1153313706.70633.8.camel@mayday.esat.net>
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Florent Thoumie wrote: > Ping? This seems to be a very dirty hack which is highly error-prone and has high potential for the user to trash their system, the same is true for the ipaddr-alias configuration stuff in rc.d/jail. Neither do I like the usage of variables in rc.conf and fstab nor using ifconfig alias/-alias in rc.d/jail which gives plenty possibilites to trash the system in the way it is currently implemented. The ideas are basically interesting and useful for using jails but the way of implementation is not very foresighted. I think we need a clear abstraction of managing jails and implementing features like fstab templates and interface configuration for jails. The current system of managing jails in freebsd is okay for the basics but when it comes to managing a whole bunch (>5) of jails it gets very unhandy and complex. Implementing quick hacks will not help the situation. I migrated all my jail-servers to ezjail, which is in my opinion the right way for managing jails and which could be a good start for a jail-management system in freebsd. The author already posted a patch (which I unfortunately didn't actually had time to test) and he is willing to share his time and work with the freebsd system. It would be great for freebsd to not just have "jails" but to have "jails and everythink you need to easily manage them". best regards, philipp
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