From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 31 14:38:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from webcom.it (unknown [212.239.10.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8228F37B503 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:38:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12007 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Jan 2001 22:32:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:32:21 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: user-config alt path in Linux emulation Message-ID: <20010131233221.A9595@webcom.it> References: <20010131112104.B2268@webcom.it> <9591ni$1qrm$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9591ni$1qrm$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:50:58PM +0000 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:50:58PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Andrea Campi wrote: > > > The net effect is that there is no way to, for instance, back up the > > real /usr from Tivoli, etc... as there is no way to get to a real path > > if there is anything with the same name inside /compat/linux. > > Loopback NFS mount. You are right. It's not elegant at all, but it works. The company I work for is a NASP and we're planning to offer companies that colocate at our premises or buy bandwidth from us the opportunity to backup their machines. I would love to also support FreeBSD, even though it's not got a major market share here. With what you suggest it's possible but I have to teach each customer to do this. My proposed solution, while more intrusive, could be packaged as a kld + scripts; writing a script to setup a loopback NFS mount in any situation is not trivial! Now if only the Tivoli client run a little faster (and more reliable)... but this is a different story. If anybody can help... ;-) Bye, Andrea -- Intel: where Quality is job number 0.9998782345! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message