From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 11:23:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tornado.cisco.com (tornado.cisco.com [171.69.104.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E91314C22 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [171.69.104.147]) by tornado.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA08847 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:22:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.pa.dtd.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA00431 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:22:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <199904011922.OAA00431@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: make release and chroot... writing to a directory outside of the root Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:22:44 -0500 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Right now, I have a server with 1GB of RAM doing a make release for me, where 99% of it will occur in memory. What I'd _LIKE_ to do is have the "R" directory of the release really be a physical media, so, should a machine errantly reboot after a build, at least I have the finished work on disk. Originally, I had the "R" directory as a symbolic link to a path I wanted it stored in. Unfortunately, it appears that make world not only deletes it, but also chroot()s at some point, so the link is invalid anyhow. What I was thinking was to use a vn device to mount a file as a filesystem under R. I wanted to a) Make sure that'd work, and b.) Get any pointers in to the release make file so it wouldn't get deleted and recreated... -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message