Subject: Loopback Mounts and chroot

From: "Jeff Middleton" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:58:23 -0700

Could anyone give me the low-down on the use of SUNOS's
use of loopback mounts to get around the chroot problem
you have when you want several of your guest users to
access the SAME directory's contents.  Is there a FAQ?

I have SUNOSv 4.1.4 and wuftp v.2.4

Thanks in advance for your help.

[email-masked]

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From: "W. James Showalter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:23:00 -0400 (EDT)

Jeff,

A loop back mount is sort of a hard link which works
across different filesystems.  I would recommend doing
a man on lofs (loopback file system).  That is how I
found out about it.  We use it to link an already mounted
file system into one of our anonymous ftp directories.  This
was done when we discovered symbolic links would not work.

Jim