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Explaining the zfs features of ezjail

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@ -142,6 +142,34 @@ Image jails may also be encrypted using
or
.Xr geli 8 ,
depending on the options given at creation time.
.Ss Using ZFS
To give more precise control over the resources consumed by a jail,
ezjail allows putting each jail in its own
.Xr zfs 8
filesystem. See
.Sx Jail Creation Examples
for details.
.Pp
Also, ezjail can be configured to install its basejail
and the accompaning template for all new jails into its own filesystem.
Set the the
.Dq Li $ezjail_use_zfs
variable in your
.Pa ezjail.conf
to
.Dq YES
before running
.Nm Cm update
or
.Nm Cm install .
You may also want to configure the destination
.Xr zpool 8
using the
.Dq Li $ezjail_jailzfs
variable.
.Pp
You can use ZFS jails without installing the basejail into its own ZFS
filesystem and vice versa.
.Ss Per-Jail options
As we saw earlier, a jail is described by a file in
.Pa EZJAIL_PREFIX/etc/ezjail/ .
@ -416,7 +444,7 @@ It is possible to set this variable to
if the administrator wants to temporarily ezjail, or if she doesn't
want the jails to be automatically started on boot.
.Pp
The ezjail system may be reset to a printine state by removing all its
The ezjail system may be reset to a pristine state by removing all its
files, that is:
.Bl -item -compact
.It
@ -570,7 +598,7 @@ in
An empty directory,
.Pa /usr/jails/sandbox2 ,
will be created, and used as a mount point when starting the jail.
.It Nm Cm create Fl i Fl c Cm bde Fl s Ar 600M sandbox3 10.0.10.5
.It Nm Cm create Fl c Cm bde Fl s Ar 600M sandbox3 10.0.10.5
This creates a new file based image jail, with
.Xr gbde 4
encryption. During the gbde creation process you are asked to enter a
@ -579,6 +607,11 @@ process. Remember this passphrase, you will be asked for the
passphrase every time sub-command start is used on this jail. As they
require administrator interaction, jails backed by an encrypted file
are not automatically started when the system boots.
.It Nm Cm create Fl c Ar zfs Fl s Ar 1G sandbox4 10.0.10.6
This creates a new zfs filesystem based jail with a default quota of 1
gigabyte using lzjb compression. It uses the zpool configured in the
.Dq Li $ezjail_jailzfs
variable to create the filesystem in.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Pa EZJAIL_PREFIX/bin/ezjail-admin
@ -596,7 +629,8 @@ are not automatically started when the system boots.
.Xr ezjail-admin 8 ,
.Xr ezjail.conf 5 ,
.Xr jail 8 ,
.Xr nullfs 4 .
.Xr nullfs 4 ,
.Xr zfs 8 .
.Pp
Interesting additional tools include:
.Dq Li ports-mgmt/jailaudit .