On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:15:46AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >Is this a fundamental design issue with null_fs or a bug? > > > >There appears to be a lot of confusion on the lists about this point > >as many people are trying to do this so as to make a single mysql > >server available from within a number of jails, for instance. However > >people appear to think that this is a limitation of the jail code, not a > >limitation of the null_fs code. Having named pipes work in null_fs > >filesystems would be a very handy thing indeed. > > > >I'd appreciate any insights into this. > > Just wanted to say that it seems like this should work, and I'm not yet > certain why it doesn't. I've looked into it a bit, but my time is very > limited, so I doubt I'll be able to put much more into it.. >
It's been brought to my attention that there's been a PR open about it since April 2003: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/51583. It's got a patch in it, but it's not complete. I'd really really appreciated it if someone with file system foo could take a look and comment. Thanks thanks, Joe
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