[Sorry, this is a late reply, but might be helpful.] Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Brandon, > Thursday, September 15, 2005, 5:17:57 AM, you wrote: > > [...] > > nullfs looks interesting. I was thinking about sharing files > > between jails using NFS, but it looks like nullfs would do the trick > > with better performance. Although the bugs section of the man page > > for mount_nullfs is rather scary. Does anyone have any experience > > with it? Does it actually work? > > btw unionfs is interesting as well, but the BUGS section is pretty the > same :)
Another possibility is to use union mounts (i.e. using the "-o union" mount flag with a regular mount). This works without problems and is very stable, but it is a little less flexible than UNIONFS (or NULLFS) because it merges only the directory entries at the mount point. > > If the point here is to make /tmp/mysql.sock show up in another > > jail's file space, can I use a symlink instead? Can a jailed process > > see the target of the symlink? > > I read that using such a symlinks has security impacts. Symlinks within a jail cannot point to targets outside of that jail. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." -- Steve Haflich, in comp.lang.c++ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
