Peter Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:49:48 +0100, David Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:27:38PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > If the memory isn't shared in this situation, is there a
> > > way to change the design so it can be shared? chroot and
> > > NFS are "musts", though.
> >
> > I don't think there is an easy way to get this caching to happen,
> > short of using hard links or some kind of union mount instead of
> > NFS.
>
> "nullfs" sounds like just the job here. ie, mount the NFS filesystem
> once, then use nullfs to graft it into each chroot area:
>
> mount host:/usr /mnt
> mount -tnullfs /mnt /jail/1
> mount -tnullfs /mnt /jail/2
>
> Of course, there's more overhead than if you weren't using the extra
> nullfs layer, but the caching works as you want.
Thanks for the explanation.
It really sounds like nullfs would be the solution for me,
but unfortunately, I can't use it because of the known pro-
blems of nullfs in FreeBSD 4-stable (which is the branch
that I'm using).
Best regards
Oliver
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> Can the denizens of this group enlighten me about what the
> advantages of Python are, versus Perl ?
"python" is more likely to pass unharmed through your spelling
checker than "perl".
-- An unknown poster and Fredrik Lundh
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