From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 6 3:14:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CEF37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 03:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from worf.kerna.com (worf.kerna.com [194.106.143.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 671C043FBF for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 03:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@kerna.ie) Received: (qmail 96154 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Mar 2003 11:14:14 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:14:14 +0000 From: James Raftery To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jails update Message-ID: <20030306111414.GB95910@bender.kerna.ie> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030305135652.GA83413@ei.bzerk.org> <020c01c2e340$ee8f5c60$19fd2fd8@westbend.net> <20030306140038.M43664@woozle.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030306140038.M43664@woozle.rinet.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:02:37PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > We avoid this (and the whole need to update multiple jails) by > installing to dedicated partition and the do multiple read-only null > mounts, so each jail has perfectly equal read-only /usr (with symlinks > outside to /home, /local, etc) The rather blunt warning in the BUGS sections of the mount_null man page[0] had put me off using it. How stable is nullfs these days? [0] ``... NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) ...'' -- James Raftery. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message