From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 17:21: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 17:21:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (SHW2-220.accesscable.net [24.71.145.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA6737B402 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBL1Js015144 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:19:54 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:19:54 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: jail(8) and mount point limits ... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morning all ... I'm trying to figure out a way fo cleanly sharing directories betwen jail environments, and am running against a few 'brick walls', and am wondering if anyone has any ideas ... Right now, I have a server that has 30 jail environments configured onto it ... works great, but I'd like to work on reducing some of the duplication of files, if I can, so that I don't have to upgrade 30 servers when I need to upgrade a piece of software, or, at the very least, not have 30+ /usr/ports to update ... Now, someone had one suggested a hard link, but you can't do that with directories according to the docs, so that idea is out ... and a symlink won't go "through" the chroot() environment ... So, I think, that leaves using nfs ... nfsd lets you bind to a particular IP, so I can bind that to the base machines IP no problem, but eventually it times out cause portmap isn't running, so that appears to be out ... Next option is to put /usr/ports on another machine and nfs mount from there, which I can do similar to what I do for procfs, but now I'm going to have 30+ nfs mounted /usr/ports directories ... First question ... is there an easier way of doing this then using nfs? Second question ... if not, are there any limits to the number of file systems I can nfs mount from one server to another before I run into problems? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message