FreeBSD Jails the hard way

Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by laumars on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:23PM (#10866499)

To be fair, ez-jails doesn't really abstract away that much. It just streamlines some of the more monotonous stuff.

My home server did originally run with jails which I'd created by hand and that worked really well for a while. But I started running into issues keeping the jails up-to-date. So I recreated those jails with ez-jails and the whole platform has been faultless ever since.

In fact it's been such an effective set up that I've been considering flattening my Proxmox box and running FreeBSD + Jails on that as well

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Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by feld on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:23PM (#10868381)

ezjails are not upgradable by design which is a huge problem

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Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by geococcyxc on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:57PM (#10868628)

ezjail-admin update -i has always worked for me, binary upgrades should work as well. What "design" are you thinking of here?

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Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by feld on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:10PM (#10868708)

It doesn't update files in /etc nor does it remove old files.

There are other problems, but those are the most prominent.

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