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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:27:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nullfs et al
Message-ID:  <200103121327.IAA25065@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103091814.TAA91443@lurza.secnetix.de> from "Oliver Fromme" at Mar 09, 2001 07:14:55 PM

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+--- Oliver Fromme wrote:
| 
| Hi,
| 
| What is the "proper" way to mount binaries etc. into a
| bunch of jail homes?  Obviously, I don't want to copy
| /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/lib etc. for every jailed user.
| BTW, I'm using 4-stable.
| 
| I've grepped the lists and found the following possible
| solutions:
| 
| (A)  Local NFS loopback mounts.  Seems to work reliably.
|      Is this the best way?  Somehow it is my impression
|      that the NFS causes some overhead and might cause
|      some performance impact.  Any opinions?
|      BTW, this particular machine doesn't use any NFS
|      otherwise (neither client nor server).

An alternative to this could be symlinks.  In a chroot()ed environment,
the user should see symlinks OUT of the jail as the actual files.

Populate /usr/local/jail/bin, /usr/local/jail/usr/bin... with whatever
you want, and then just link /chroot/path/bin -> /usr/jail/bin...

Then you eliminate the NFS overhead, but now links are eating all your
inodes...

-- 
Steve Tremblett

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