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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 15:02:33 -0700
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Jail: Problems? Proper Usage? Status? Practicality?
Message-ID:  <200005172202.PAA01574@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000516170812.15891F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:   <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000516170812.15891F-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On May 17, 11:05am, Robert Watson wrote:
} Subject: Re: Jail: Problems? Proper Usage? Status? Practicality?

} One way to substantially improve jail scalability would be to allow the
} same (read-only) file system to be present in all jails as the root, with
} only jail-local data being modified.  You can imagine gratuitously using
} nullfs (if it worked) to do this, and mount per-jail writable fs's for
} appropriatel subdirectories (/etc, /usr/local, /home) with appropriate
} symlinks within the jail.

I badly want nullfs for another reason.  It can be really handy to
allow separate jails to communicate through the filesystem.  Imagine
updating a set of web pages using rsync over ssh in one jail, and
sharing these via a read-only mount in another jail where the web
server is running.


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