Idea from Kris Moore – PC-BSD

2 Comments / File Systems, FreeBSD, Jails, ZFS / By Dan Langille / October 20, 2012

I’m sitting in the The Warden – FreeBSD and Linux Jail Management talk at EuroBSDCon 2012. He has mentioned two things, so far, that give me ideas. Evil ideas.

Put each jail in a different ZFS data set – this may be useful for my jails running Bacula regression testing
Schedule cron jobs to do snapshots on a regular basis – useful for snapshots, which I’m not really using at all

And he’s only 23 minutes into his talk…

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Dan Langille
October 20, 2012 at 10:04 am

Yeah… right, when will I have time to do this?

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Dan Langille

November 15, 2012 at 3:05 pm

Well, I did it:

$ zfs list
NAME                                                                      USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
storage                                                                  5.55T  3.33T  14.5G  /storage
storage/compressed                                                       5.53T  3.33T  55.5K  /storage/compressed
storage/compressed/bacula                                                4.96T  3.33T  4.96T  /storage/compressed/bacula
storage/compressed/home                                                  2.75G  3.33T  2.75G  /storage/compressed/home
storage/compressed/jails                                                  589G  3.33T  14.4G  /storage/compressed/jails
storage/compressed/jails-new                                             59.7K  3.33T  59.7K  /storage/compressed/jails-new
storage/compressed/jails/building.example.org                             630M  3.33T   630M  /storage/compressed/jails/building.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/dbclone.example.org                              560G  3.33T   560G  /storage/compressed/jails/dbclone.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/dbclone.example.org@2012.14.11.WhileMerging     5.83M      -   202G  -
storage/compressed/jails/ducky.example.org                               59.7K  3.33T  59.7K  /storage/compressed/jails/ducky.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/mysql41.example.org                              493M  3.33T   493M  /storage/compressed/jails/mysql41.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/mysql50.example.org                              470M  3.33T   470M  /storage/compressed/jails/mysql50.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/mysql51.example.org                              524M  3.33T   524M  /storage/compressed/jails/mysql51.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/mysql55.example.org                              541M  3.33T   541M  /storage/compressed/jails/mysql55.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/pg83.example.org                                 527M  3.33T   527M  /storage/compressed/jails/pg83.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/pg84.example.org                                 643M  3.33T   643M  /storage/compressed/jails/pg84.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/pg90.example.org                                 635M  3.33T   635M  /storage/compressed/jails/pg90.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/pg91.example.org                                 673M  3.33T   673M  /storage/compressed/jails/pg91.example.org
storage/compressed/jails/pg92.example.org                                8.90G  3.33T  8.90G  /storage/compressed/jails/pg92.example.org
storage/pgsql                                                             153M  3.33T   153M  /storage/pgsql

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