Hello -current, I have a jail running Postfix whose filesystem is mirrored from the host using mount_nullfs(8). The problem is that when I upgrade the Postfix, the port removes /usr/local/libexec/postfix/, which is mount_nullfs'ed on /jail/postfix/usr/local/libexec/postfix/, then recreates it, but the vnode is obsviously not the same and thus the nullfs mount is not valid any longer. Of course, I can simply install Postfix in the jail filesystem and not on the host, but I consider this as a workaround and furthermore I want to run Postfix from the host itself. I was fed up with typing for fs in `mount | awk '/postfix/ {print $3}'` ; do umount $i ; done each time I don't forget to do it. I decided to make the rc(8) jail script manage the mounts for each jail. There was two ways to do it : * either use a tiny awk script to parse fstab(5) file and some magic shell gymnatic to mount/umount when starting/stopping the jail, * or make a new mount(8)/umount(8) option to act only on mount points which match a given prefix. I implemented the second solution, but if someone has a good argument to use the first one instead, I'm ready to listen to him. Two patches are attached. I didn't make a PR since I would like to see what people think before sending it. The first patch adds a `-c' flags to mount(8) and umount(8) whose argument is the prefix to match for (`c' for `cmp', since `p' is already used in mount(8)). I tested it against my system and it seems to work quite well. Nevertheless a friend of mine pointed me that matching against a pathname could be delicate because of symlinks. I don't really know how to overcome this, except I can put some king of warning or advice in the manpage. Suggestions are very welcome. The second patch simply modifies the rc(8) jail script to take advantage of the first one. It works well either. Regards, -- Jeremie LE HEN aka TtZ/TataZ jeremie.le-hen_at_epita.fr ttz_at_epita.fr Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
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