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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2013 19:11:53 +0300
From:      George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS in jails 9.2-RC1 permission denied
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 08/08/2013 13:05, Mark Felder wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013, at 6:59, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm just guessing, but I doubt a jail would be able to create new ZFS
> >> filesystems outside its own structure, if at all able. A jail would
> >> however be allowed to (un)mount already existing filesystems within
> >> its own structure, i.e. Pool/test1.
> >>
> >
> > When I first reviewed his post I clearly confused "mounting" with
> > "creating a new zfs filesystem". Is that even supposed to be permitted
> > in a jail? I almost feel a sysctl disabling that by default would be
> > nice... DoS by zfs filesystem creation/deletion, anyone?
>
> There's a 'zfs jail' command and a 'jailed' property you can set on a
> ZFS which I believes allow you to manage that ZFS from within the jail.
>  I think that extends to creating other ZFSes beneath that one (which
> would inherit the 'jailed' property), BICBW.
>
> Mostly I find it easier to just manage the ZFSes from the host system
> but then again, I'm not really making very extensive use of jails.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>
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Yes, it is easier to manage ZFS datasets from the host system but in this
case we are assigning a different jail to each customer. That jail should
be able to receive snapshots. It was working fine so far with 9.1.

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