On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:09:30AM +0200, loic d'Anterroches wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:55:54PM +0200, loic d'Anterroches wrote: > >> Dear All, > >> > >> Do I am wrong or I need to put nothing in the /etc/fstab of a vserver? > > inside a vserver (guest), there should be no direct > > hardware access, and this, to some amount, includes > > mounting filesystems like the rootfs ... > > > > for sure, you do not want to run mdadm inside a > > vserver, because if you provide enough device nodes > > to make mdadm happy, somebody might use it to redesign > > you vserver host from inside ... > > > > so to make it short: vserver should not need > > an /etc/fstab at all, but they will require an > > /etc/mtab to display filesystem info and handle quota .. > Ok, another question coming from your answer. (Thanks for the speed in > your answer.) > -- > /dev/hdv1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > -- > What is the purpose of this line in my /etc/mtab? I found that it is > created at start time of the vserver. As I do not have any hdv drive I > suppose that it is to make happy some part of the system. Is it just to > inform that a "basic" mount point exists, and the use of a non existant > drive is to avoid problems when stopping the server, as if it try to > unmount it it will not affect the "real" drives?
try df with and without that entry ... > Then to reach the feeling of correct basic understanding of the vserver I > need a /proc datamining session in all the howtos, wiki and archives. http://www.linux-vserver.org/index.php?page=Linux-VServer-Paper HTH, Herbert > Regards, > lo�c > > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
