Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-03-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:32:03PM -0800, Patrick Thomas wrote: thank you - I am glad to see that this is a good way of doing things Two quick items: 1 How do I give each jail a 'proc' filesystem in its /proc using this configuration ? mount -t procfs proc

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-28 Thread Patrick Thomas
thank you - I am glad to see that this is a good way of doing things. Two quick items: 1. How do I give each jail a 'proc' filesystem in its /proc using this configuration ? 2. Is there any downside to this whatsoever ? This seems infinitely better than a new partition for each jail, so was

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-28 Thread Patrick Thomas
one other thing: How many mount points (jails, in this case) can I run ? I see that there are 8 existing vn0X device files in /dev - can I just create more of them using MAKEDEV (or mknod) and keep going ? What is the maximum ? 256 ? also, do I need to alter the kernel to support more vn0X

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: How many mount points (jails, in this case) can I run ? I see that there are 8 existing vn0X device files in /dev - can I just create more of them using MAKEDEV (or mknod) and keep going ? What is the maximum ? 256 ? Depends. Expect 256 to be available in all

using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-27 Thread Patrick Thomas
I would like to put a large number of jails (16 or 20) on a server for testing purposes. I have two options so far: create 16 or 20 partitions OR just put them all in one partition, but the downside of that is that then I cannot enforce disk usage between jails. So at this point, 16-20

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-02-27T20:49:18Z, Patrick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to put a large number of jails (16 or 20) on a server for testing purposes. I have two options so far: create 16 or 20 partitions OR just put them all in one partition, but the downside of that is that then I

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:03:11PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-02-27T20:49:18Z, Patrick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to put a large number of jails (16 or 20) on a server for testing purposes. I have two options so far: create 16 or 20 partitions OR just put