On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:25:44PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 03:43:37AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:03:39PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > > use bind mounts because I want the vservers to only have read-only > > > access to the filesystem, and bind mounts don't (or didn't, last > > > time I tried) allow changes in permissions between the original > > > location and the bound location. > > > > yeah, right, that's where my BME (Bind Mount Extension) > > patches come into play (fixing this mainline 'bug/feature') > > Does this patch work with the 1.2 series? I can't use the 2.0 series > vserver because of my requirement for 2.4 kernels :-(
there is a patch for 2.4 kernels, but it was not combined with linux-vserver (1.2.x) yet ... provided there is some interest and somebody (you?) is willing to test it, I see no problem to provide one ... > > > # Select an unused context (this is optional) > > > # The default is to allocate a free context on the fly > > > # In general you don't need to force a context > > > > what defaults are those? > > That's what was created by the install-fc1 script which came with > util-verser-0.30-0. hmm, how old is that package? > > > guest. So will the request come from the guest's IP address, or > > > will it fall through to the host, and the host make the request. > > > > the host will make the request, but with the guest's ip > > (NFS isn't really supported with 2.4/1.2.x) > > Yeah, it seems to be a little messy :-) > > > well, it is how networking works right now :) > > I can understand _why_ things happen the way they happen, I'm just > supprised it worked at all. I guess the Linux NFS server has a > security issue; as long as the filehandle information works it doesn't > check that the IP address matches the original mount IP address. In > this case, luckily, good! depends on the version, nowadays nobody uses NFS below vers=3 (nobody expecting it to work, that is) and usually tcp based (instead of udp) ... > > > Yeah, it's very annoying. Alan Cox has a lot to say about it! > > > > he probably has ... fixing it would be better, though :) > > The 2.6 maintainers don't agree with Alan, so there's an issue :-( > > I haven't checked the latest 2.6 kernels, but last month the issue > still seemed to be unresolved. I'd _love_ to move to 2.6 and replace > my FC1 system, but it seems I can't (or else pay money for USB > enclosers...). well, I don't remember an IDE hotplug standard by default, I know that some SATA enclosures support it ... but hey there is the source, use it ... > -- > > rgds > Stephen _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
