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
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After recent efforts to get old jails running on a new server, I tried to upgrade some ports today. I failed. portupgrade was erroring out and reporting: protocol not supported A simple fetch http://www.google.com/ was giving me fetch: transfer timed out I tried portaudit -Fa. Nothing. fetch: transfer timed out I checked ifconfig on the jail host. There is was. I’ll show only a small part of the ifconfig output: $ ifconfig inet
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The FreeBSD Foundation says: “We are pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism.” http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2010-July/001335.html
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