What is Jail?

[Djbinh]

Hi every

I'm need to freenas, going through posts and everyone is saying Jail this and Jail that

What is Jail


Sorry for the stupid question

 

[Djbinh]

Sorry wrong section of the forum

 

[Whattteva]

Think of a jail as a clone of the host system that is isolated from the rest of the host system.
Hence, things you do to the jail does not affect the host system (in this case, FreeNAS) in any way.