On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:11 am, Bruno wrote:

hmm.. not sure what version you are running, but with the latest dev, there is 
an fstab in every guest configuration that has bind mounts for portage in it 
that get mounted and umounted as the guest is started/stopped. they bind to 
the host portage dirs, so as long as the host portage is mounted, these will 
reflect any changes made in the host such as sync or distfiles additions



> Hi,
> 
> On my Gentoo Host+Guest I have a squashfs copy of portage which is 
> loop-mounted at boot time on the host and then bind-mounted to the guest 
> using the vserver's fstab in /etc/vservers/...
> 
> How can I unmount+mount this snapshot with propagation to the guests when 
the 
> image is updated?
> 
> Best would be to have a "vmount" tool provided by util-vserver that can 
mount 
> anything from guest->guest or even host->guest. It should work with the 
> host's mount command (if needed) so it works even if the guest do not have 
> mount installed.
> 
> Bruno
> 
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Chuck

"...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger,
and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath
or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose 
for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. "
The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book


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