Re: jails, ZFS, deprecated jail variables and poudriere problems

Hi,

I have no tried (but it's in progress) this article:
http://zero-knowledge.org/post/126/

Hope it will help (for me too).

Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:25 AM O. Hartmann <ohartmann_at_walstatt.org> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> trying to setup a poudriere jail on recent CURRENT and have some severe
> trouble.
>
> We have a single ZFS pool (raidz), call it pool00 and this pool00 conatins
> a
> ZFS dataset pool00/poudriere which we want to exclusively attach to a jail.
> pool00/poudriere contains a complete clone of a former, now decomissioned
> machine and is usable by the host bearing the jails. The jail, named
> poudriere,
> has these config parameters set in /etc/jail.conf as recommended:
>
>         enforce_statfs=         "0";
>
>         allow.raw_sockets=      "1";
>
>         allow.mount=            "1";
>         allow.mount.zfs=        "1";
>         allow.mount.devfs=      "1";
>         allow.mount.fdescfs=    "1";
>         allow.mount.procfs=     "1";
>         allow.mount.nullfs=     "1";
>         allow.mount.fusefs=     "1";
>
> Here I find the first confusing observation. I can't interact with the
> dataset
> and its content within the jail. I've set the "jailed" property of
> pool00/poudriere via "zfs set jailed=on pool00/poudriere" and I also have
> to
> attach the jailed dataset manually via "zfs jail poudriere
> pool00/poudriere" to
> the (running) jail. But within the jail, listing ZFS's mountpoints reveal:
>
> NAME                USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> pool00             124G  8.62T  34.9K  /pool00
> pool00/poudriere   34.9K  8.62T  34.9K  /pool/poudriere
>
> but nothing below /pool/poudriere is visible to the jail. Being confused I
> tried to check the appropriate security variables and found a set of sysctl
> OIDs, which seem to have no documentation entry, like
>
> security.jail.param.allow.mount.zfs: 0
> and a counterpart
> security.jail.mount_zfs_allowed: 1
>
> Checking the description of security.jail.mount_zfs_allowed tells me that
> this
> OID is deprecated:
>
> security.jail.mount_zfs_allowed: Jail may mount the zfs file system
> (deprecated)
>
> So, we tried to set
>
>         param.allow.mount.zfs=1
>
> via /etc/jail.conf for the propper jail, but this results in an error. I
> can't
> find anything in jail(8) about these new ".param." OIDs, so maybe my
> trouble is
> rooting in here.
>
> Is there a howto for the novices on howto setup a jail with ZFS
> capabilities
> needed for poudriere with ZFS?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> oh
>
>
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