On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Devin Teske <dte...@vicor.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis <vrac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> my name is Ilias, and I am a student from Greece. >> I wanted to propose an idea for this year's summer of code, >> but I am not sure how useful it actually is for others. >> >> I would like to create a webui to manage the jails on a system. >> The only other alternative I could find at the moment is >> a webmin plugin. The thing is that webmin is a fairly generic tool >> that can do a lot of things. My idea was to create a django-based >> application designed specifically for jail management and deployment. >> >> Does this functionality actually appeal to people? > > I think this is a great idea. > >> Is it feasible as a SoC project? > > I think that your best chance at success is going to be to design your > project around the fact that the jail management landscape
is changing > (in the scope of both the utilities offered in the base for managing jails at > the command-line and the capabilities of what a jail can do such as mount > ''jail-friendly'' vfs types when allowed via sysctl-knob, etc). > > There are several e-mails in the -jail@ list which can provide a good idea as > to the direction of the jail landscape. > > So, for example, I'd design a web interface that has the ability to mount NFS > from within the jail (via jexec perhaps) not just into the jail (from the > base-host). Even though ZFS is about the only ''jail-friendly'' vfs type, NFS > should eventually make it's way into that group, and once it does, it would > be nice if the web interface either supported it or was modular enough to > extend the capability to support said feature. > -- > Cheers, > Devin > > >> Regards, >> Ilias >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
