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To: Victor Polyakov <victor@tvcom.ru>
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Subject: Re: jail + mount_union problem
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Victor Polyakov wrote:
>     Unfortunately, NULLFS filesystem does not permit users to modify files.
> We want do give each user a copy of /usr and to permit installation of
> software etc...

You mean "on a per user basis".  It permits modification.

In general, you would mount / and /usr read-only, and mount
some other area (e.g. /usr/local) as read/write, and they
would install their private stuff there.

-- Terry

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