On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:21:35PM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote:
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> Hi Herbert,
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> Herbert Poetzl schrieb:
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > It seems that I am misunderstanding the namespace cleanup thing...
> > I use unionfs (aufs) for my guests rootfs - a basic root stub and a
> > physical data partion are assemlbed in a script in prepre-start and
> > mounted to the actual guests root.
> > In parallel, I have a script in post-start that mounts the physical
> > device to a backup mountpoint /mnt/backup/<server>.
> > I now try to use "namespace-cleanup-skip" settings, to prevent this
> > backup mountpoint to disapear from the root context but I am
> > unsuccessful.
> >> what do you mean by 'root context'?
> Sorry, I guess I should say namespace - the system state I see from
> the host system.
the namespace cleanup affects only the guest namespace(s)
so the host context and namespace are not affected at all
> > I tried putting the parent /mnt/backup as well as the directr path
> > /mnt/backup/www1 into either the gloabl as also the guests own
> > settings file - but it wont work.
> >> what are you trying to achieve?
> I want to have the Device containing the data mounted on a mountpoint
> visible from the host system to run a backup via the host.
so simply mounting it at some point (e.g. from the
initialize script) should suffice (or even from a
script manually started at host startup), no?
best,
Herbert
> TIA
>
> Oliver
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