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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Sat 13 Aug 2005 - 11:56:13 BST


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
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