[Devel] Re: [Patch 01/05]- Containers: Documentation on using containers

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Please also give a short description what containers are for. From 
> what I read
> here I can only guess it's about gettings some statistics about a group of 
> tasks.
>   
Container is like FreeBSD Jail on steroids (and Jail is chroot() on 
steroids).

As a nice intro, I suggest you to read
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system_level_virtualization
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ