jail_set_vimage - Vimage under new jails

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, James Gritton wrote:

Hi,

> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> One question I have is to do with Jails in general.
>> There are a lot of other patches floating around with
>> jails features.  How many of those patches are going to be
>> incorporated?

I am aware of one, mostly to be able to MFC it to 7.

For more see http://wiki.freebsd.org/Jails which is a good overview
but also has to be read with a pinch of salt for some items.


> I'd like to have "jail_set versions" of a lot of what's out there - certainly 
> what's being currently worked on.  My next target is Bjoern Zeeb's 
> multi-ip/no-ip/ipv6 extension (actually, I've got no-ip already).  But I 
> don't want to turn it all into one grand jail_set patch without buy-in, as I 
> don't know which patches have what kind of support.

I'll reply to your other private mail on how we can do that later
today.


> Some things like vimage work well as prison services, using the provided jail 
> layering and remaining their own separate things.  But most of the jail

Remaining separate things sounds very good to me; I was a bit worried
before that too tight integration might happen.


> patches are extensions to the base jail stuff itself, and would make more 
> sense to just add to the existing jail code.  Some of these changes re-appear 
> in different forms in different patches.

For prison services, there are possible bugs in the current implementation as
is once there will be more than one serivce. Pawel said he had a
rewrite (or something) in p4 already with his ZFS work.

/bz

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