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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2001 00:16:22 +0400 (MSD)
From:      .@babolo.ru
To:        bra@fsn.hu (Attila Nagy)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag
Message-ID:  <200104082016.AAA16747@aaz.links.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010408210425.J45749-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> from "Attila Nagy" at "Apr 8, 1 09:13:15 pm"

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Attila Nagy writes:
> I have a really stupid question, so please forgive me if the answer is
> trivial for you...
> 
> With the appearing of the jail() in 4.0 I think it would be very good to
> have the functionality of mounting already mounted (RW) filesystems read
> only to another directory.
> 
> For example there are several daemons which can run on a read only
> filesystem, like an anonymous FTP daemon for extra security in a jail.
> 
> nullfs and unionfs would be suitable for these tasks but they have
> problems in at least -STABLE, so there are only hacks for doing this, like
> NFS mounted filesystems and partition "magic" (defining a lot of
> partitions onto the same physical space).
> 
> So I am wondering, why the unices block mounting an already mounted
> partition read only again.
> 
> Would it be possible to solve this under FreeBSD?
I am second for it.

I am using some partition "magic" and know
dark side of it.

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> Attila Nagy                                    e-mail:  Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu
> Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU)                   @work: +361 210 1415 (194)
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