and add some more notes --- Note: IMHO, after this the wiki article could point to this section instead?
pct.adoc | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/pct.adoc b/pct.adoc index f596d99..14e2d37 100644 --- a/pct.adoc +++ b/pct.adoc @@ -386,16 +386,33 @@ in three different flavors: Bind mount points ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Bind mounts allow you to access arbitrary directories from your Proxmox VE host +inside a container. Some potential use cases are: + +- Accessing your home directory in the guest +- Accessing an USB device directory in the guest +- Accessing an NFS mount from in the host in the guest + Bind mounts are considered to not be managed by the storage subsystem, so you -cannot make snapshots or deal with quotas from inside the container, and with +cannot make snapshots or deal with quotas from inside the container. With unprivileged containers you might run into permission problems caused by the -user mapping, and cannot use ACLs from inside an unprivileged container. +user mapping and cannot use ACLs. + +NOTE: The contents of bind mount points are not backed up when using 'vzdump'. WARNING: For security reasons, bind mounts should only be established using source directories especially reserved for this purpose, e.g., a directory hierarchy under `/mnt/bindmounts`. Never bind mount system directories like `/`, `/var` or `/etc` into a container - this poses a -great security risk. The bind mount source path must not contain any symlinks. +great security risk. + +NOTE: The bind mount source path must not contain any symlinks. + +For example, to make the directory `/mnt/bindmounts/shared` accessible in the +container with ID `100` under the path `/shared`, use a configuration line like +'mp0: /mnt/bindmounts/shared,mp=/shared' in '/etc/pve/lxc/100.conf'. +Alternatively, use 'pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/bindmounts/shared,mp=/shared' to +achieve the same result. Device mount points -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
