From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 23 12:25:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B32137B90D for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:25:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id MAA22710; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:25:17 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda22708; Sun Apr 23 12:25:11 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA28564; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdD28547; Sun Apr 23 12:24:54 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA00521; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004231924.MAA00521@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdoed516; Sun Apr 23 12:24:49 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Linux Emulation Root (was: Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 11:35:14 PDT." <200004231835.LAA62963@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:24:49 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200004231835.LAA62963@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > I intend to commit this to -current and immediately MFC it to -stable. > I don't expect there to be any controversy though I'm sure there is a > cleaner way to do it. On a semi-related topic, it would be handy to have a feature, environment variable, table in the kernel, a sysctl variable, etc., to set the Linux emulation root to the real root. For example, the backup component of Legato for Linux (nsrexecd and friends) runs nicely on under Linux emulation, however, recovering files in the root directory sees them placed in the Linux emulation root directory. To work around this I've used a union filesystem that mounted / on another mount point and redirected my restores to it. My questions are: Is there a cleaner way to work around this, e.g. some tunable knob to tune Linux emulation? If not, would anyone else see any use for this kind of feature? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message