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Date:      Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:18:49 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Aaron Weeden <amweeden.earlham@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS export of directory in jail
Message-ID:  <20110608101849.46154sh8xynwxwtl@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=FsEtVxV0grAottCfMpq4rgc2OPg@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Aaron Weeden <amweeden.earlham@gmail.com> (from Mon, 6 Jun  
2011 16:11:45 -0400):

> I am wondering if a parent can export NFS from a mount point inside of
> a jail running on that host.  More specifically, here is the scenario:
>
> The parent, murphy, is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, running ezjail version 3.0.
>
> A jail, positron, is rooted on murphy in /usr/local/jails1/positron.
>
> positron has a directory, /clients.  murphy will export this directory
> using NFS.
>
> murphy's /etc/exports looks like this:
> /usr/local/jails1/positron/clients -network 192.168 -mask
> 255.255.255.0 -maproot=root
>
> I have been told that funny things can happen if a parent tries to
> access part of a jail without using jexec.
>
> Will something weird happen to murphy or positron in the scenario
> described above?

As long as ezjail does not automount/-unmount a part of this tree  
during start/stop: No.

Bye,
Alexander.

-- 
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