Archive for the 'jails' Category



We got ZFS!

ZFS is there. Great! Thanks Pawel!

Now I wait a little bit until the first bugs are ironed out, and then I move all my stuff to it. The nice part: when you have 2 machines and everything you use is jailed, you just can do this without an “interruption of service” (or at least only [...]

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Yeah! Finally I got time to finish my work to put a desktop environment (in this case GNOME) into a jail. At least I have a proof of concept (I write this with firefox running in my “deskjail”). No, I don’t do this for additional security (there’s more security than in a non-jailed setup, but [...]

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I want to use a socket (mysql) in multiple jails. Using nullfs to mount it in each jail where you want to use it does not work (bug in nullfs?). Using a hardlink (if the jails reside on the same FS) works. I hope this info safes a little bit of time in case someone [...]

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