Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 14:00:22 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> To: Klaus Werner Krygier <krygier@kph.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation problem Message-ID: <35309EC3.640B8BE2@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980412123933.12972A-100000@krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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Klaus Werner Krygier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to force the Linux emulator to use the /compat/linux
> tree only for shared libraries and other system files but not on the
> user level?
>
> In our heterogenous computer environment we use a commercial client/server
> backup system (NSR) which runs on several platforms. Unfortunately, client
> software for this system is available only for Linux and not for FreeBSD :-(.
> This software seems to work fine under FreeBSD (because of the excellent
> Linux emulation :)) but with one ugly exception:
>
> Instead of files and directories in the / tree the /compat/linux tree is
> accessed. Especially addressing of a subdirectory for which the
> corresponding /compat/linux directory exists yields in accessing ONLY the
> Linux files. The same effect occurs for example if you use a Linux find:
> $ ./find /etc
> /etc
> /etc/host.conf
> /etc/ld.so.conf
> /etc/ld.so.cache
> /etc/revision-history
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> $
> For backup purposes this behaviour is not very useful. In the worst case
> a backup consists only of Linux files - the last thing we want to backup.
>
> Can anyone give us some helpful hints how to solve this problem?
>
Why you can not do symlink on / somewhere under /compat/linux?
> Klaus Werner Krygier
>
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