Date: 06 Mar 2003 17:59:36 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <arthur-list-bsd@erewhon.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jails update Message-ID: <873cm074vr.fsf@pooh.wired.qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: Dmitry Morozovsky's message of "Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:02:37 %2B0300 (MSK)" References: <m3znoa8543.fsf@teg.local> <20030305135652.GA83413@ei.bzerk.org> <m3u1ehuc9w.fsf@teg.local> <020c01c2e340$ee8f5c60$19fd2fd8@westbend.net> <m31y1l1xcz.fsf@teg.local> <20030306140038.M43664@woozle.rinet.ru>
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Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> writes: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > > FT> One problem with the DESTDIR approach may be the use of > FT> symlinks by a jail administrator - if there are symlinks set for > FT> directories containing the binaries you may overwrite the hosts > FT> directories. Maybe "make installworld" does a check for this too - I > FT> didn't look at it. > > 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) I'm probably misreading this as I'm only just starting to look at the jail facilities but are you saying symlinks from inside a jail to outside it work within the jail? Doesn't that defeat the entire point? Or are you saying /usr/local is e.g. a symlink to /local and you have a different /local per jail and one for the host as well? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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