Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:08:30 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Jail <freebsd-jail@freebsd.org>, Jamie Gritton <jamie@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New jail(8) committed Message-ID: <20120428060830.GA47982@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <4F9B6E8F.8070708@erdgeist.org> References: <4F99AB0E.4090805@FreeBSD.org> <4F9B6E8F.8070708@erdgeist.org>
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 06:14:07AM +0200, Dirk Engling wrote: > On 26.04.12 22:07, Jamie Gritton wrote: > > > I've finally put my jail(8) changes into HEAD. This new version of jail > > can create jails from a configuration file - see jail.conf(5) for the > > format, as well as some additions to jail(8). This doesn't mean you > > *have* to use jail.conf, but it's a better way to manage jails than the > > existing rc.conf method. > > Out of curiosity, why did you settle for a /etc/jail.conf instead of a > /etc/jail.d/? Your config file format introduces the dependency into an > expensive parser while adding little value. Even worse, the user now has > to struggle with just another format describing the system. > > I can foresee that my automated jail management tool ezjail will not be > able to support the jail.conf format due to the lack of a parser. A look > into ezjails config directory structure can give you a hint of how to > achieve some similar clean up with built in tools. Since when does a lack of a parser in "YOUR tool" become a problem for FreeBSD ? just sayin! 10.X is not due for a while anyway. Should give you time to adjust. > > I am not saying, the config directory format is perfect, the current > redundancy in jail_JAILNAME variables is a mess, but inventing a > container format where files would do just fine in my opinion is overkill. > > Regards, > > erdgeist > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- - (2^(N-1))
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