Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:57:33 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Jamie <jamie@geniegate.com> Cc: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>, Vance Siemens <vance.siemens@gmail.com>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... Message-ID: <868vglud1e.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20120521035323.GZ22790@mule.podro.com> (jamie@geniegate.com's message of "Sun, 20 May 2012 22:53:23 -0500") References: <20120520170702.GY22790@mule.podro.com> <1120936952.633013.1337546532026.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <20120521035323.GZ22790@mule.podro.com>
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Jamie <jamie@geniegate.com> writes: > Jails are usually more suited to "cloud work" than KVM or the latest > OpenVZ/Containers/??? of the linux world ever will be... No, they're not. VMWare, RHEV (KVM-based) etc. provide features such as seamless migration of virtual machines from one physical machine to another, automatic restart on a different physical server if one fails etc. that simply aren't possible with jails; and there are certain things you still can't run reliably / safely in jails - anything that relies on SysV IPC, for instance, such as PostgreSQL. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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