nullfs and NFS the only options ?

[Chris Rees]

D'oh, I knew it was something obvious.

Chris

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On 23 Jan 2011 17:36, "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/11 5:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
>> Hi all again,
>>
>> I've been looking at the code for mounting Portstrees and Jails; is
>> there a reason
>> we couldn't add a -symlink option to do away with the need to use
>> mount? I'm only
>> asking because it's a real hindrance to installing in a FreeBSD Jail
>> having to use mount.
>>
>> I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple, so before I try to make a
>> patch tell me what i've
>> missed!
>
> A Jail is a chroot. This is more or less a separate instance of the
> userland to isolate the port build into its own environment. There is
> no way to symlink from the host into this chroot. You need to mount,
> and the only way to do that is with NFS or nullfs.
>
> Joe
>
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