Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:19:26 -0500 From: Brian Cully <shmit@erols.com> To: tcobb@staff.circle.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNION FS appropriate? Message-ID: <19980310081926.53170@erols.com> In-Reply-To: <8188AD2EBC3CD111B7A30060082F32A40C3FA3@freya.circle.net>; from tcobb@staff.circle.net on Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 02:11:22AM -0500 References: <8188AD2EBC3CD111B7A30060082F32A40C3FA3@freya.circle.net>
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On %M %N, tcobb@staff.circle.net wrote: > > What is the current known state of UNION FS? > > Here's my situation: > > I have a set of directories which contain a user's files (mostly web > stuff). FTP chroots nicely into this space, and I have other public > services which do so, too. All of these files are served from a primary > NFS server. What I'd like to do is mount these directories on a new > box, and then allow a chrooted telnet. The telnet side I can handle > just fine, but I need to 'overlay' onto these directories such stock > binaries as chmod,ping,vi, etc. This will allow me to let folks telnet > in, and have a usable experience, but not require separate copies of > these binaries in each chroot-space. Is this possible with UNION? Is > UNION stable enough to handle being dynamically mapped on login? The state of the union, is, IIRC, Not So Good. You should probably look elswheres for a solution. You might want to use portal instead of union, for that matter. I've set up sendmail inside of a chrooted environment using portal for read only access to /etc (which lies on a different partition, so hard links to appropriate files are impossible). -- Brian Cully <shmit@erols.com> ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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