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That facade enabled millions to have easy access to that particular kernel feature. BSD jail's have been around for decades without mass adoption.
by ampdepolymerase 6y ago
That facade enabled millions to have easy access to that particular kernel feature. BSD jail's have been around for decades without mass adoption.
- freedomben 6y agoI think the GP's point is that alternatives can easily spring up when the main feature-set/value is in the kernel rather than the glue code.
- int_19h 6y agoBSD jails weren't widely adopted because the BSDs themselves weren't widely adopted by the time the industry got to the point where something like Docker was increasingly seen as necessary. I remember being involved in one project that had to decide this exact question in the very early days of Docker - jails were much more stable back then, but customers wanted Linux containers, not "sufficiently Linux-like".