On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:16:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As to the obscurity of this scenario: I was creating a chroot to be used > as filesystem for a kvm instance. While nis is not widely used, those > that do use it probably want to use it in virtualization too, if they do > virtualization. So this might crop up more often in the future. 10 years > ago virtualization wasn't a buzz-word.
Most people do virtualisation rather than chroots (as you yourself were actually going to do) and with virtualisation you don't get the problem since the virtual system is a separate one. Virtualisation has pretty much removed the reason people used to do this by providing a superior alternative. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org