[bforest]

I was working in my Jails today and I had some issues with accessing the R/W areas. I made some link changes that seemed to have corrected the issues:

Here are the changes (in the infrastructure section)

= Now, symlink the read-write file system to the read-only file system. 

     # cd $D/mroot
     # mkdir s
     # ln -s /s/etc       etc
     # ln -s /s/home    home
     # ln -s /s/root      root
     # ln -s /s/usr-local    usr/local
     # ln -s /s/usr-X11R6 usr/X11R6
     # ln -s /s/distfiles     usr/ports/distfiles
     # ln -s /s/tmp     tmp
     # ln -s /s/var      var

Basically I just changed the "s/..." to "/s/..." when creating the links.

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Someone wrote me regarding this thread and suggested the following link:

http://jail-primer.sourceforge.net

I believe this is related to the: "qjail" port. There is some good info in this document, especially about /etc/jail.conf options. My only issue with the doc is that there is no reference to ZFS and having a jail configuration built on it.

I think Jails+ZFS has great advantages but I understand jails don't "need" ZFS.