How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?
Philip Hallstrom
freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Fri Feb 3 19:52:10 PST 2006
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Those manpages are out of date.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.8
Sweet!
MFC: Remove big scary warning about nullfs state
:-)
I've set it up already and it works great.
-philip
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list