How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?
Philip Hallstrom
freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Fri Feb 3 18:53:37 PST 2006
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:02:43PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> I've got a new 6.0 box and have setup some jails. I'd like to share
>> /usr/ports from the host, to each of the jails.
>>
>> I tried mount_unionfs and while it worked, the box would crash if I did
>> anything intensive (ie. compile a port).
>>
>> Googling around and people say they are using nullfs okay, but the manpage
>> ends with:
>>
>> THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T
>> WORK)
>> AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR
>> OWN
>> RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET.
>
> nullfs is fine in 6.0, and the warning has been removed.
Good to know it's cool. I'll start playing with it. The warning is still
there though... in both 6-stable and 7-current.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable&format=html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-current&format=html
Thanks!
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