dedicated dataset for jail data

[Julien Cigar]

Hello,

I have a host with a lot of jails, which are deployed automatically with
Saltstack (thanks to https://github.com/silenius/jails-formula). I
usually create two datasets per jail: one for the jail itselfs, and one
for the "data". The idea is to be able to easily upgrade the jail
without touching the "data". So I have something like (1).

I have one fstab per jail which mount the corresponding "data" dataset
under the jail, something like:

~/ cat /etc/fstab.nextcloud 
/data/jails/nextcloud           /jails/nextcloud/data   nullfs  rw      0 0

I'd like to know if there is a better way of handling this, without
involving nullfs if possible and how do people usually manage that..?

(1) https://gist.github.com/silenius/f1899ebb5cf58ca33b3e5edafc85d549

Thanks!

Julien

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