Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:43:09 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> To: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Cc: jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nullfs: Panicing... Message-ID: <199610061843.QAA05809@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199610061507.PAA04362@veda.is> from Adam David at "Oct 6, 96 03:07:26 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
#define quoting(Adam David) // > I want to make parts of a file system available to anon ftp, whose // >chrooted directory is located at another file system. My first // >approach was to use nullfs, but everytime I try to edit (vi) // >a file in the nullfs mounted directory, the system panics. Everything // >else works (or seens to work) ok. // // > I already had problems with vi and nullfs in NetBSD, caused by the // >mmap nature of vi. Maybe this is the case, too. // // > This problem happens at 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 releases. Does not matter // >if the nullfs is mounted read-only or if vi is called in the its read- // >only from (view). // // Probably mmap then, since read-only access typically worked already otherwise. // // >PS: I'm now using NFS to localhost, as a workaround. // // I had to abandon this approach and use symlinks instead, once the directory // had outgrown a certain size. Perhaps there is no longer any such size limit, // but I don't have the stomach at the moment to risk it. I cannot symlink to anon ftp. It's chrooted, remember ? :) // // -- // Adam David <adam@veda.is> // Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610061843.QAA05809>