Re: sharing directories between jails

From: Bart Matthaei (bart@dreamflow.nl)
Date: 02/13/02 

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:25:59 +0100
From: Bart Matthaei <bart@dreamflow.nl>
To: Clemens Hermann <haribeau@gmx.de>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:11:13PM +0100, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> how could this solve the issue? Afaik you can not mount a partition into
> different points of the filesystem at the same time.

I'm not entirelly sure. I know that on linux, you can mount /proc
atleast twice. No clue if this counts for freebsd and/or ufs.

> > Euh, I mean symlinking something from outside a jail, into a jail, is
> > a Bad Thing.
>
> I thought this is impossible.

I think it's possible. But I'm not sure so don't quote me.

> A reason to mount directories could e.g. be to share distfiles read only.

I know. I think a network share is a decent solution, although I
personally dislike NFS (nevertheless, there's no good alternative
besides from maybe afs).

Let me know how it work's out.

B. 

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