Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:26:13 +0100
From:      Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com>
To:        Rob <listone@deathbeforedecaf.net>
Cc:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Subject:   Re: jails; sharing parts of file system;	mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.
Message-ID:  <3FFBC2A5.7050504@mb-itconsulting.com>
In-Reply-To: <010101c3d4f2$c5f49320$a4b826cb@goo>
References:  <13B5D138-40E2-11D8-B8B0-003065A70D30@shire.net> <010101c3d4f2$c5f49320$a4b826cb@goo>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Chad, Rob, -
>>On linux you can do a
>>
>>% mount -bind olddir newdir
>>
>>to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else.  The NullFS on FBSD seems
>>to allow similar things.  However, as much as I could find on NullFS
> 
[...]
> 
> I'm currently setting up my 4.9-RELEASE webserver to do something
> similar - each jail gets a root filesystem, but /usr is shared readonly
> by all of them. The exception is /usr/local/etc, which is symlinked to
> /etc/local (in the jail).
> 
> My impression, though I don't have much to back this up with, is that
> nullfs is reliable enough in read-only mode. Other folks may have a
> different opinion.
> 

Personally, I use (localhost) nfs-mounts to remount parts of the file 
system somewhere else. Works quite well.

Greetings,
Martin Brecher



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3FFBC2A5.7050504>