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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:29:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: FreeVSD for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103122229050.34932-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103121824460.3642-100000@mobile.hub.org>

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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
> > > >
> > > >
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> Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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