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

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a compelling application for bind mounts?
  • From: Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:33:03 -0500
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.

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On Dec 26, 2013 10:10 AM, "Strake" <strake888 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote:

> On 26/12/2013, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> 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.
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