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Date:      Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:57:57 -0800
From:      Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: How to share directories b/n jails on 6.0?
Message-ID:  <43E43455.50004@simplenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060203215206.J1887@bravo.pjkh.com>
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How did you set it up specifically ?

and is it just fixed in 6.0 ? or does it also work in 5.4 ?

t


Philip Hallstrom wrote:

>> 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 Those manpages are out of date.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
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