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From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:44:16
Message-Id: 45573F47.2080802@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot by Brian Davis
1 Brian Davis wrote:
2 > Hey folks,
3 >
4 > I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for
5 > the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition
6 > from my chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache
7 > chroot if I don't have to. Therefore I would have soft symlinks from
8 > the chroot to the data. Does this effectively make the chroot worthless?
9 >
10 > Thanks!
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13 I'm not sure if it would work at all. If I were you I would make dirs
14 instead of symlinks and use "mount --bind".
15
16 HTH
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19 Best regards,
20 Daniel
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