preferred jail management tool

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Jan 28 15:47:57 UTC 2015


On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Allan Jude wrote:

> Ezjail still works perfectly fine. It is moderately actively maintained,
> it works very well with ZFS. The value of having a single basejail,
> rather than multiple is slightly diminished by the fact that we all have
> more disk space than we used to, and the fact that ZFS could clone a
> common dataset to save some space, but, when it comes time to upgrade
> the common basejail is useful. The process can be a bit awkward at
> times, but it generally works fine.

The single basejail is ezjail's killer feature.  Agreed, it's not so 
much a matter of disk space as of making it possible to upgrade all the 
jails at one pass.


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