Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On 13/12/26, Peter Sj?berg wrote: > On 12/26/2013 01:11 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > > >> Similar to chroots, I use bind mounts for containers. This is useful > >> to give all containers access to the same /home or for distributing > >> /etc/reso

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Peter Sjöberg
On 12/26/2013 01:11 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > >> Similar to chroots, I use bind mounts for containers. This is useful >> to give all containers access to the same /home or for distributing >> /etc/resolv.conf. The latter is actually a very cool us

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > Similar to chroots, I use bind mounts for containers. This is useful > to give all containers access to the same /home or for distributing > /etc/resolv.conf. The latter is actually a very cool use case of > bind mounts... you can bind a file, not jus

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Similar to chroots, I use bind mounts for containers. This is useful to give all containers access to the same /home or for distributing /etc/resolv.conf. The latter is actually a very cool use case of bind mounts... you can bind a file, not just a directory. -- Sent from my Nexus 4. On Dec 26, 2

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On 13/12/26, Strake wrote: > On 26/12/2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > does anyone here use bind mounts on a regular basis, and for what? > > Not regular, but I often bind into chroot environments or with HTTP > servers who won't follow symlinks for security reasons. Simlarly, I've seen bind mo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Strake
On 26/12/2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > does anyone here use bind mounts on a regular basis, and for what? Not regular, but I often bind into chroot environments or with HTTP servers who won't follow symlinks for security reasons. ___ Linux mailing lis

[OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?

2013-12-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
prepping for teaching a (home-written) course in red hat enterprise linux admin next month and decided i might as well dig into a few topics i've never really understood intimately, so i'll be asking about them over the next few posts. first up -- bind mounts. does anyone have a *compelling*