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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:35:57 +0100
From:      "BSDJunk" <BSDJunk@1729.net>
To:        "Jan Knepper" <jan@digitaldaemon.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 'ln' instead of 'make installworld DESTDIR=$D'
Message-ID:  <013e01c1ae8d$196d4da0$0801a8c0@lan.1729.net>
References:  <3C60423A.6010002@digitaldaemon.com>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Knepper" <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:36 PM


> Hi!
>
> I just wondered if there is something available that would setup a
> 'jail' with 'ln' instead of installing all the files into a directory. I
> mean, creating a link (ln) from ~/jail/bin/cat to /bin/cat could save
> quite some disk space or am I missing something here?!

It is possible, but there are a two problems:

- You have to use hard links, so /bin/cat and ~jail/bin/cat must be in the
same filesystem.
- When a jail gets compromised, so will the host system, since they use the
same files.

>
> Thanks!
> Jan
>
>
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