Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-07-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Benedict Verheyen schreef: Karl E. Jorgensen schreef: Then i'm stuck with either samba or nfs. They should work. Or perhaps a clustered file system that allows the same disk to be mounted read-write simultaneously by multiple hosts. Such a disk could be located on the underlying host (=more

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Karl E. Jorgensen schreef: Then i'm stuck with either samba or nfs. They should work. Or perhaps a clustered file system that allows the same disk to be mounted read-write simultaneously by multiple hosts. Such a disk could be located on the underlying host (=more ubd devices on the uml l

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:30:47PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Felipe Sateler schreef: > > >>I'm currenly looking at these options: > >>* COW funtionality > > > >That wouldn't work either, since COW usually is done on mounted filesystems > >too. > > I could make a file and then mount that

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-08 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Felipe Sateler schreef: I'm currenly looking at these options: * COW funtionality That wouldn't work either, since COW usually is done on mounted filesystems too. I could make a file and then mount that as extra partition and specify in the fstab file that the /home dir corresponds to that

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Felipe Sateler schreef: >> >> Then mount-bind them as many times you need. Note that the mounts need to >> be done outside the uml servers, since you need to reach the original >> directories. >> For example, suppose you have the following structure: >> /srv/uml1 >> /sr

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Felipe Sateler schreef: Then mount-bind them as many times you need. Note that the mounts need to be done outside the uml servers, since you need to reach the original directories. For example, suppose you have the following structure: /srv/uml1 /srv/uml2 ... Then, to mount the local home dire

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Felipe Sateler schreef: >> Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to have an UML server that houses the home directories >>> and makes them available for the UML servers that handle email and thus >>> save emails in those share home directories? >> >> Maybe mou

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Felipe Sateler schreef: Benedict Verheyen wrote: Is it possible to have an UML server that houses the home directories and makes them available for the UML servers that handle email and thus save emails in those share home directories? Maybe mount-bind the direcotries? mount --bind /orig/dir

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-05 Thread Felipe Sateler
Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Is it possible to have an UML server that houses the home directories > and makes them available for the UML servers that handle email and thus > save emails in those share home directories? Maybe mount-bind the direcotries? mount --bind /orig/dir /dest/dir -- Fe

sharing home directories for UML's

2007-06-05 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i currently have a setup in Debian that has about 8 vservers. Now i want to move some vservers to UML. I already have a kernel that supports them both and a test UML instance. In my vserver setup, i have split my mailconfig. I have a vserver that runs squirrelmail & courier, a vserver that