Re: sharing home directories for UML's

[Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com>]

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 ubd device.
Should work.

> Also, COW would not make the changes made in one UML instance
> available to the others.
Yup that would be a big problem.

> > * mount -t smbfs and thus having to run samba on the UML that has the
> > home directories
>
> That is a possibility. NFS is another one.
>
> > * hostfs
>
> This seems like the Right Way (according to google). There is even a
> tutorial on how to do this on UML's SourceForge page:
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/hostfs.html

If i want to use hostfs, i need to leave the homedirectories on the 
server. But i can't use hostfs if i'm setting up the home directories 
inside another UML.
Then i'm stuck with either samba or nfs.

Regards,
Benedict