From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 18:30:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1024916A4C0 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.npubs.com (mail.npubs.com [209.66.100.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2538543FDF for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nielsen@memberwebs.com) Resent-Message-Id: From: "Nielsen" To: "Brian Reichert" , References: <20030909194445.GB49411@numachi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4925.2800 Message-Id: <20030910011713.AA0FE3FF6C1@mail.npubs.com> Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Resent-From: nielsen@memberwebs.com (Postfix Filters) Subject: Re: NFS mounts and jails X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:30:15 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:30:15 -0000 > As far as I know, that means that NFS partition has to be mounted > (redundantly?) for each jail, even in (in my case), they'll all be > access in the the same way (eg. read-only). Yup, that's right. > - is my assertion correct; that is, do I need to redundantly mount > the same NFS partition for each jail for each jail to access it? As far as I know, yes that's the case. If you're mounting the same system however you may want to look into mount_null. Yes, there are cache issues, and these have been discussed multiple times (see the archives), but I've used null mounts successfully in read-only mode for several years now without problems. Cheers, Nate