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Yeah, I think you're right about the BSD jails point. This totally pre-dates the Linux piece. I was only chatting about the Linux piece.


BSD jails date back to FreeBSD 4, which was released in 2000.

Edit: I started questioning my memory of this, so I poked around some. Poul-Henning Kamp did the initial work in April, 1999, here is the commit:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=46155

More details from him about it:

http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/jails/


Awesome, thanks _jal!


I am pretty sure that OpenVZ also predates the Google work in a Linux context.

Basically saying that 'containers on Linux' are 'made at Google' is not true.


But the OP doesn't state containers on linux were invented at Google. It says cgroups were.


Mid 90s ran some vm system of MSDOS. It added threading and was for phone systems.




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