From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 7:14:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F2237B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:14:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from marklar.blazingdot.com (marklar.blazingdot.com [207.154.84.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B800743EA9 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:14:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@blazingdot.com) Received: (qmail 95747 invoked by uid 503); 13 Dec 2002 15:14:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:14:55 -0800 From: Marcus Reid To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: layered file systems ... Message-ID: <20021213151455.GD92171@blazingdot.com> References: <20021213095811.A13175-100000@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021213095811.A13175-100000@hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Coffee-Level: high Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Morning ... > > I'm trying to figure out a way of sharing, as an example, /usr/X11R6 > across several jail'd environments, but in such a way that if one of them > installs an extra package under that directory structure, its only visible > to that jail , and not the others ... > > As a better example ... sharing /etc across several jails, but where > each would have its own /etc/rc.conf ... > > Anyone have an idea of how this could be accomplished? Sounds like you're looking for something like unionfs. Unfortunately, it doesn't work (even in -CURRENT) and if it did I don't know if it could be made to work across jails. But the manpage for mount_unionfs makes for a good read anyway.. Marcus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message