Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:38:12 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook chapter 15.6 problem Message-ID: <20070624133812.GC31645@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0706231029g3542b9e7sd6d3738da8a70a85@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070622163041.GA31645@atarininja.org> <d7195cff0706231029g3542b9e7sd6d3738da8a70a85@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 12:29:24PM -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 22/06/07, Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> wrote: > > Someone on IRC just pointed out that following the directions in chapter > > 15.6 of the handbook doesn't work. It appears that these instructions > > were written before SA-07:01 was done. Setting a rootdir to /home > > doesn't work since /home is a symlink by default. > > > > Am I correct in thinking this? If so I will gladly write up a patch to > > fix the handbook. > > /home by default is only a symlink to /usr/home if > you do not set up /home on its own filesystem and > even then the instructions say: > : Note: This assumes that the jails are based under > : the /home partition. This can, of course, be changed > : to anything else, but this change will have to be > : reflected in each of the examples below. > > I can hardly see how qualifying it further will clarify > anything. The above message says nothing about the example being broken under default circumstances; that is, letting sysinstall create the partitions automatically results in /home being a symlink to /usr/home. Based upon the text you quoted above a user knows that putting jails anywhere is acceptable but they don't know that putting them anywhere with a symlink in the path is not. All I'm suggesting is that /home be changed to /usr/home in the examples. -- WXS
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