On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:16:49AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Herbert,
> You are correct.  Sorry for misquoting you.
> Now I'm back to my usual state: Dazed and confused
> 
> Here are my vservers
> ls -l /vservers/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4096 Apr  8 11:36 vcrux01
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4096 Apr  8 11:36 vcrux02
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4096 Apr 22 08:02 vcrux03
> 
> Which of the following is correct syntax for the above example? A,B,C,D, or E 
> :)
> A) setattr --barrier /vservers
> B) setattr --barrier /vservers/
> C) setattr --barrier /vservers/vcrux02
> D) setattr --barrier /vservers/vcrux02/
> E) setattr --barrier /vservers/vcrux02/..
> A and B need be run only once
> Repeat C,D,E for each vserver

basically C and D are bad ;)

A and B are (at least on 'sane' filesystems) identical

E is the only one really required ...

> I have been using C.  Is this an issue?  
> So far things have been running fine.

well, then I'd say, in your case, no ;)

> sig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Poetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:45 AM
> To: Magnuson, Sig
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Vserver] Official copy method?
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:28:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I was originally doing it that way but Herbert recommended this way.  
> > I have not experienced any issues so far.
> 
> what I recommended was to use:
> 
>       setattr --barrier /vservers/vcrux02/..
> 
> instead of
> 
>       setattr --barrier /vservers
> 
> (spot the dots ;)
> 
> and it is because /path/to/.. is not necessarily the 
> same as /path 
> 
> HTH,
> Herbert
> 
> > sig
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bj�rn
> > Steinbrink
> > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:21 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Vserver] Official copy method?
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 2005.05.12 07:48:27 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >     * Set up vserver barrier
> > > 
> > > sudo showattr -d /vservers/vcrux02
> > > ---bui- /vservers/vcrux02
> > > sudo setattr --barrier /vservers/vcrux02
> > > sudo showattr -d /vservers/vcrux02
> > > ---Bui- /vservers/vcrux02
> > 
> > the barrier flag is supposed to be set on /vservers (i.e. the directory
> > directly above the vserver's root directory). Not sure if setting the
> > flag on the vserver's root itself may cause problems with 2.6 kernels.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Bj�rn
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