Jails are a hardened version of chroots. They allow multiple separate
FreeBSD installations to run on one machine, while sharing a kernel, ram, resources.
Documentation
Tutorials
Locations
/etc/rc.conf |
enable jails, global jail configuration
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/etc/jail.conf |
configure individual jails
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/etc/jails/*.fstab |
individual jail fstabs
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Notes
Jail Management Tools
rctl |
set jail resource restrictions
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cbsd |
abstraction layer over jails/bhyve/xen
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iocage |
more powerful tool to facilitate managing jails
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ezjail |
shellscript to facilitate managing jails
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