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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:14:55 -0800
From:      Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: layered file systems ...
Message-ID:  <20021213151455.GD92171@blazingdot.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021213095811.A13175-100000@hub.org>
References:  <20021213095811.A13175-100000@hub.org>

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Morning ...
>
>    I'm trying to figure out a way of sharing, as an example, /usr/X11R6
> across several jail'd environments, but in such a way that if one of them
> installs an extra package under that directory structure, its only visible
> to that jail , and not the others ...
> 
>   As a better example ... sharing /etc across several jails, but where
> each would have its own /etc/rc.conf ...
> 
>   Anyone have an idea of how this could be accomplished?

Sounds like you're looking for something like unionfs. Unfortunately,
it doesn't work (even in -CURRENT) and if it did I don't know if it
could be made to work across jails. But the manpage for mount_unionfs
makes for a good read anyway..

Marcus

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