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Ah, that bait got you. It's a smug comment that claims something but offers no example at all, not even an anecdotal one. If FreeBSD jails were so much better
by znpy 5y ago
Ah, that bait got you.
It's a smug comment that claims something but offers no example at all, not even an anecdotal one.
If FreeBSD jails were so much better than Linux namespaces/containers etc we would be all using FreeBSD by now. The license is even more permissive. Containers have been out for ~ten years now and yet... Here we are.
- trasz 5y agoAnd if ZFS was so much better than Linux ext3 we would be all using Solaris, right? ;-) The market doesn’t work like that.
- chousuke 5y agoI suspected it was bait, but FreeBSD jails being better than whatever Linux has is such a common meme that I'm asking anyway just in case someone actually knows enough about them to answer. I don't know enough to say for sure, but my current impression is that Linux namespaces are actually more powerful than jails, but harder to use because the kernel doesn't provide a "simple" interface to create an isolated container, and userspace software implementing containers get to use the individual bits as they see fit.