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Date:      Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:55:25 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Hans Zaunere <zaunere@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared files within a jail
Message-ID:  <3DD1F75D.12B10F92@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021113030847.69266.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hans Zaunere wrote:
> I want to allow the users the ability to compile and use their own
> instances of Apache and MySQL from within the jail.  But instead of
> duplicating the basic system libs and bins, I'd like to maintain a
> single repository of this, which can then be read-only from within the
> jail.  Options:
> 
> -- Symlinks won't work because of the chroot.
> -- Mounts from within the jail aren't allowed, plus a single partition
> can't be mounted multiple times, AFAIK.
> -- I don't have NFS setup, and I would like to avoid it as much as
> possible.
> -- mount_null seems to be the answer, however the warning at the end of
> the man page is scary.

It's less scary, since you will be mounting read-only.

-- Terry

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