From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 14:29:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.coastsight.com (ns1.coastsight.com [208.46.230.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FA937B728 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:29:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from maillist@coastsight.com) Received: from ns1.coastsight.com ([208.46.230.17]) by ns1.coastsight.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14ciJV-0009P4-00; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:29:45 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:29:45 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Duvall To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Dave VanAuken , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeVSD for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How did you get the hard links to work under a chrooted environment? It will work across chroot? Or can the user see the real files that are being hard linked to? On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Duvall wrote: > > > This makes alot of sense to me! Why reinvent the wheel? > > > > I have been researching jail, but am disgusted that I have to re-compile > > the jails as well after upgrading FreeBSD so that the jails will > > update. Seems like a hassle to me. Also, compiling doesn't always work > > when making jails. Jails also take up alot of disk space in comparison to > > normal virtual hosting solution. I do, however, like the flexibility of > > jail, but don't know of any exploits in Jail, or in FreeVSD for that > > matter. > > Space wise, I've cut down significantly on the amount of disk space used > by using hard links ... basically, i Have a script that builds the > 'directory hierarcy' (since you can't link those) and then creates hard > links to files under those hierarchies. ?Right now, I'm doing ports, > X11R6, bin, usr/bin /sbin, /usr/sbin ... > > basically, have been doing "the easy ones" to do ... /usr/local and > /etc are independant .. > > > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Dave VanAuken wrote: > > > > > have looked at (and developed a few solutions using) jail, but in > > > short, am hoping to trade development time for ready made application > > > that just requires tweaking/manipulating for comfort, rather than > > > continuing with the solution development and the associated > > > troubleshooting and such. > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Rick Duvall [mailto:maillist@coastsight.com] > > > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:50 PM > > > To: Dave VanAuken > > > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Re: FreeVSD for FreeBSD? > > > > > > > > > FreeVSD sounds alot like jail (see man jail in 4.x). I am wondering > > > what > > > the difference is, and if FreeVSD uses less or more system > > > resources... > > > > > > Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Dave VanAuken wrote: > > > > > > > have not looked into this too deeply: > > > > > > > > reference link: > > > > FreeVSD - http://www.freevsd.org > > > > > > > > Two questions: > > > > > > > > 1) anyone tried running FreeVSD on FreeBSD using linux compat? > > > > - feedback? > > > > > > > > 2) anyone aware of similar projects or products specifically for > > > > FreeeBSD? > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message