does anyone use these any more?

[Kristof Provost]

On 13 Sep 2018, at 15:11, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> Context: I'm writing a book on jails on FreeBSD.
>
> There's a few options that I can't figure out why anyone would use
> them. Does anyone use any of these any more, or are they leftovers
> from the primordial jail era?
>
> If you do use any of these on FreeBSD 11+, would you mind saying why
> and how?
>
> allow.dying - it's not dying very long, why make changes?
> persist - why keep it around?
>
The pf tests (/usr/src/tests/sys/netpfil/pf) use persisted vnet jails to 
test pf.
They set up jails with varying configurations and throw traffic at them.
There’s no need for any process to be running in the jail. The 
relevant part is the network configuration.

Regards,
Kristof