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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:40:23 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Justin Hopper <jhopper@bsdhosting.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"
Message-ID:  <20050201104023.GG1546@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <1107241984.685.2104.camel@work.gusalmighty.com>
References:  <1107178792.613.22.camel@spirit> <1107241984.685.2104.camel@work.gusalmighty.com>

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:13:04PM -0800, Justin Hopper wrote:
+> We are considering open sourcing all of our stuff, to contribute back
+> what we can to the OS that allowed us to build our entire company.  I'd
+> really like to see what others have done to make jails more manageable,
+> as it seems like there is so much that can be done but not many people
+> are working on it.  It seems jails have the potential to become an
+> incredible way to virtually partition servers, and it would not be that
+> hard to implement solid tools for managing them.  We have things like
+> JID-aware top and tools for automated jail builds, but it would be great
+> to work with some FreeBSD heavies to finish up clean development of
+> things like jail resource restrictions (CPU,MEM,#PROCS,etc) and perhaps
+> a clean and universally useful way to easily configure and launch full
+> jail environments.

Yes, it would be useful (I mean CPU/MEM/#PROCS limits), but as I understand
there are two kinds of opinions about jails. First is that it should be
extended and allow to create a real virtual server and second is that it
should be light-weight.

+> Pawel had some really interesting ideas for jails, but it seems that
+> he's too busy to work on them at the moment.  Speaking of which, his
+> multiple IPs patch for 5.3 is still broken, and I haven't been able to
+> find what the problem is =3D(

Could you describe the brokeness? I've made some fixes a week or something
ago, I just created a patch against HEAD if you want to try it:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/jail_2005020101.patch

There can still be some remaining issues, but I don't have time for more
detailed tests.


The thing that can be useful IMHO is possibility to use
reboot(8)/shutdown(8), etc. inside a jail, but...
I'm unfortunately too busy with other (probably less interesting, but
profitable) projects.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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