Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:13:15PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote: > > > So I am wondering, why the unices block mounting an already mounted > > partition read only again. > > Have you considered using ACLs perhaps? Sure it's not in -STABLE, but > it's a thou

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: > With the appearing of the jail() in 4.0 I think it would be very good to > have the functionality of mounting already mounted (RW) filesystems read > only to another directory. Many people agree with you -- this is one reason why the fixing of nullfs in

RE: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-09 Thread Kenneth P. Stox
On 08-Apr-01 Attila Nagy wrote: > So I am wondering, why the unices block mounting an already mounted > partition read only again. > > Would it be possible to solve this under FreeBSD? Loopback NFS mount, maybe ? -- E-Mail: Kenneth P. Stox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-09 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > > So I am wondering, why the unices block mounting an already mounted > > partition read only again. > Have you considered using ACLs perhaps? Sure it's not in -STABLE, but > it's a thought.. It's a good thing, but I need to solve this problem on -STABLE, not on -CURRENT :( I think run

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-08 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:13:15PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote: > So I am wondering, why the unices block mounting an already mounted > partition read only again. Have you considered using ACLs perhaps? Sure it's not in -STABLE, but it's a thought.. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-08 Thread .
Attila Nagy writes: > > > Would it be possible to solve this under FreeBSD? > > I am second for it. > I hope somebody will enlighten my dark mind, because I am really curious > about this :) > > > I am using some partition "magic" and know dark side of it. > What the problem is with it besides th

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-08 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > > Would it be possible to solve this under FreeBSD? > I am second for it. I hope somebody will enlighten my dark mind, because I am really curious about this :) > I am using some partition "magic" and know dark side of it. What the problem is with it besides the ugly hacking and the sma

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-08 Thread .
Attila Nagy writes: > I have a really stupid question, so please forgive me if the answer is > trivial for you... > > With the appearing of the jail() in 4.0 I think it would be very good to > have the functionality of mounting already mounted (RW) filesystems read > only to another directory. >

Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-08 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I have a really stupid question, so please forgive me if the answer is trivial for you... With the appearing of the jail() in 4.0 I think it would be very good to have the functionality of mounting already mounted (RW) filesystems read only to another directory. For example there are sev