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From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
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Subject: Re: mount_null Trouble, Please Help!!
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I guess you could use NFS (I'm guessing) for something like this, but
it's really not an ideal solution to your problem.  

Cheers,
Marc

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:05:02PM -0400, Network wrote:
> > From the mount_null manpage:
> >
> > BUGS:
> >    THIS FILESYSTEM 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.
> >
> > Just something you might want to consider.  :)
> > I didn't have much luck with mount_null either --
> > caused kernel panics galore.
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> I am very blind, I didn't see that warning at all.
> 
> Can somebody please give me a suggestion how I might do a similar thing as
> mount_null?  Its for FTP/web/user.  Since ProFTPd and friends cannot follow
> symlinks to another area/disk etc out of its chroot, I need a work-around. 
> Can somebody _please_ give me a possible solution.
> 
> Thanks!


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