From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 19:09:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A372659 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:09:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ateve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98921B2 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=smtp.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TyoeZ-0000Nk-OV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:09:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by smtp.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Tyoe6-0006Km-Uj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:09:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:08:46 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best approach to jails + zfs Message-Id: <20130125190846.3a465d358e5abd273aa7ca79@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <193A9ED3-53E5-474B-AECA-4B2652356283@todoo.biz> References: <6951EF94-E2BD-4B03-9F42-EA94BD23B718@todoo.biz> <20130125174152.385948bbc82410a3eecc4472@sohara.org> <193A9ED3-53E5-474B-AECA-4B2652356283@todoo.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:09:14 -0000 On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 bsd wrote: > Le 25 janv. 2013 à 18:41, Steve O'Hara-Smith a écrit : > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:25:06 +0100 > > bsd wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I wanted to have the point of view of the community on the best > >> approach in order to handle a quite large system with couple of jails > >> (shouldn't have more than 5 to 10). Whole system is based on zfs. I'll > >> use this as a backup server. > > > > You might like the sysutils/ezjail port - I use it for a very > > similar purpose and find it works well. > > > > -- > > Steve O'Hara-Smith > > > > I am a bit skeptical on the third party script approach. > > How stable has It been ? Rock solid - for me YMMV of course. The underpinnings are quite straightforward so it should be easy to fix anything that does go astray. > ZFS has introduced a new challenge, but now that I have understood (more > or less) how It is working, I found It really great! Just trying to > figure out the best way to use both Jail + ZFS. > > But I might re-consider my position… Does ezjail comply with the latest > FreeBSD 9 / 9.1 advances in jail / ZFS management improvement ? I'm using it on a 9,1 box to admin a bunch of 9.1 jails. It doesn't require ZFS but it can use it (along with a variety of other storage options). It uses standard ZFS commands to do it's work with ZFS. It's just a shell script program (albeit a 1500 line one), I might have written a simpler, cruder one myself had it not existed and worked. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith