Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:32:13 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount_null evil ? Message-ID: <20030310213213.GE87518@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <20030310132402.GA93784@LF.net> References: <20030310132402.GA93784@LF.net>
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Marc, > I?m currently developing a jail-management solution - I use a > readonly mount_null for central software-management of the jails. > The manpage was written May 1, 1995 - is using this tool still dangerous I have used it for read-only mounts since way back and have not have any problems, including brief periods of high I/O. I'd have reservations allowing unique data on a read-write mount, however I just did a few quick and simple tests of reads and writes on a rw null mount on my 4.8-RC box with no apparent problem. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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