How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Feb 3 19:25:09 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Those manpages are out of date.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

Kris
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