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Date:      Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:59:12 +0700
From:      Igor Podlesny <subscr@morning.ru>
To:        "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: vnodes and jail
Message-ID:  <12485527191.20010429215912@morning.ru>
In-Reply-To: <017701c0d0b0$193e2ae0$6405a8c0@neland.dk>
References:  <a05010406b7118d108fea@[192.168.1.5]> <017701c0d0b0$193e2ae0$6405a8c0@neland.dk>

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>> I'm  setting  up a few virtual servers using jail (on a single disk
>> system)  and  would like to prevent them from filling my primary or
>> their  shared  file  systems.  It  looks  like  I  can  limit their
>> consumption  using  vnodes to give each one their own virtual disk.
>> Is  this  a  practical  way  of  handling  it, or is there a better
>> solution?

I do the same with vnodes... seems it's okay, and I'm quite sure it is
safer  than  just  quotas...  if even root account gets compromised it
still be okay :)

>>  I'm new to vnodes, so I would also appreciate any insight
>> into what performance degradation I should expect.
>> 

> You  don't  want  to limit by vnodes, as you probably don't care how
> many files they have, just how many MB they have.

not i-nodes, vnodes instead (vnode pseudo disk devices -- vn(4))...

> You  probably can use quota instead, as it (probably) doesn't matter
> if the users are jailed or not.

> Leif


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