smbfs on VIMAGE kernel

Bjoern A. Zeeb bz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 12 00:25:11 UTC 2011


On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Julian Elischer wrote:

> On 1/11/11 11:42 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> With the attached patch I can mount and use samba fs on current built with
>> VIMAGE option.
>> 
> but what does that actually MEAN?
>
> you are in a jail
> you have your own stack.
> you mount a filesystem.
> When someone outside the jail (who  can see that point in the filesystem) 
> sees it,
> who's stack do they use to access it?

Short answer: you cannot mount any file system inside a jail unless
it's marked jail friendly which brings us to ZFS only currently.

/bz

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
         <ks> Going to jail sucks -- <bz> All my daemons like it!
   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html


More information about the freebsd-virtualization mailing list