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From: francisv@dagupan.com
To: frank@agava.com
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Subject: RE: jail + quota
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:32:33 +0800 
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Hi,

We want to offer virtual private server hosting using FreeBSD's jail
mechanism. Enforcing agreements such as:

1) disk space allowed
2) process prioritizing (CPU and memory)
3) packaged services (www, ssh, etc.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Zakirov [mailto:frank@agava.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:25 PM
> To: francisv@dagupan.com
> Cc: isp@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: jail + quota
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 francisv@dagupan.com wrote:
> 
> > Henk,
> >
> > What's your suggestion? These are some of the things that are running
> inside
> > my head:
> >
> > 1) create a partition for each jail client
> > 2) use vn
> 
> Why do you need all this strange things? Usual kernel quota mechanism
> works just fine for jails although there are some problems here.
> 
> The first problem is that in a jail you can't use quotactl(2) syscall. You
> need to setup quota limits from a master system in a some special manner
> (like a ssh from jail to master).
> 
> The second one is that you need some special tool for setting quotas
> because standard edquota(8) is interactive tool and
> /usr/ports/sysutils/setquota require for acoount to exist in the master
> environment.
> 
> The third problem is that all your accounts and groups must be unique
> across the whole machine.
> 
> *** WBR, Alexey Zakirov (frank@agava.com)

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