-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
- --On Thursday, December 20, 2007 14:57:41 +0200 Nikos Vassiliadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, what do you need to virtualize and what your requirements are? As mentioned in my original, we provide VPS hosting, so we're virtualizating the whole virtual machine ... > I think the question about virtualization is far too broad. > For example, you mentioned quotas. I think you can bypass storage > control problems, using seperate devices for each client filesystem. > Just create n vnode md(4) devices for your n jails. This has another > advantage besides partitioning storage. Since UFS supports sparse > files, only used blocks will occupy storage space, thus you don't > have to preallocate all storage. Again, as mentioned in the original, the problem isn't quotaing the whole VPS, the problem is software (in this case, plesk) that seems to have a requirement to set a hard quota *within* the VPS itself, which isn't supported, currently, by jails ... In the past, for quotaing 'the whole VPS', I had tried the whole md(4) device idea, but found that insufficent inodes were being created for to do much, and no matter what I tried with newfs, couldn't seem to get more to be created, as if, due to the small size of the device, a 'max ratio' was being hit ... but, this was way back on 4.x when I tried that ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHanSx4QvfyHIvDvMRAsSMAJ0XEYjZI5ELwFeilPGMrr7LXvFGrACeMF4V 4zmuT2vbGDIOdjGQwbSLjk4= =EGiy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"