Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Eirik Øverby writes: [...] What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or energy to look into it? I'm an admin only, no

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Eirik Øverby
On 06-05-05 08:18, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eirik Øverby writes: [...] What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? been doing it since 4.x (i think x 9) in initdiskless (5.x) we have: if [ -e /conf/union ]; then kldload unionfs mount_md 4096 /conf/etc chmod 755 /conf/etc

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Eirik Øverby
On 05-05-05 16:59, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2005, Eirik [ISO-8859-1] Øverby wrote: The solution, or at least parts of it, would be to have certain parts of the jail filesystems mounted in via nullfs (acceptable solution) or unionfs (ideal solution). However,

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Eirik Øverby
On 06-05-05 09:25, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? been doing it since 4.x (i think x 9) Any idea how unionfs will behave if stacked (more mounts on top of each other)? I was

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Danny Braniss
On 06-05-05 09:25, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? been doing it since 4.x (i think x 9) Any idea how unionfs will behave if stacked (more mounts on top of each

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-06 Thread Eirik Øverby
On 06-05-05 13:14, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06-05-05 09:25, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? been doing it since 4.x (i think x 9) Any idea how unionfs

Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi all, I'm struggling with some hosting environments where I am managing a large number of jails (100) spread over about a dozen servers. I am starting to see disk space as a real problem, especially given that each physical box needs to be autonomous - i.e. I can't rely on any external storage,

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:06 +0200, Eirik =?ISO-8859-1?B?2A==?=verby wrote: [...] The solution, or at least parts of it, would be to have certain parts of the jail filesystems mounted in via nullfs (acceptable solution) or unionfs (ideal solution). However, ever since FreeBSD 4.10 this has

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread Artem Kuchin
Eirik Ø verby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I start playing with this again, I'd like to know if any work has been done on either of these in 5.x. Specifically, I'm currently running 5.3-p6 or newer on all the systems, and as of yesterday I've been using 5.4-prerelease (cvsup) on a couple of

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2005 14:06 schrieb Eirik Øverby: Hi all, I'm struggling with some hosting environments where I am managing a large number of jails (100) spread over about a dozen servers. I am starting to see disk space as a real problem, especially given that each physical box needs

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Eirik [ISO-8859-1] Øverby wrote: The solution, or at least parts of it, would be to have certain parts of the jail filesystems mounted in via nullfs (acceptable solution) or unionfs (ideal solution). However, ever since FreeBSD 4.10 this has been a major problem, as both

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread George Hartzell
Eirik Øverby writes: [...] What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or energy to look into it? I'm an admin only, no coder,