On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:21:35PM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Herbert, > > Herbert Poetzl schrieb: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: > > Hi All, > > It seems that I am misunderstanding the namespace cleanup thing... > > I use unionfs (aufs) for my guests rootfs - a basic root stub and a > > physical data partion are assemlbed in a script in prepre-start and > > mounted to the actual guests root. > > In parallel, I have a script in post-start that mounts the physical > > device to a backup mountpoint /mnt/backup/<server>. > > I now try to use "namespace-cleanup-skip" settings, to prevent this > > backup mountpoint to disapear from the root context but I am > > unsuccessful. > >> what do you mean by 'root context'? > Sorry, I guess I should say namespace - the system state I see from > the host system. the namespace cleanup affects only the guest namespace(s) so the host context and namespace are not affected at all > > I tried putting the parent /mnt/backup as well as the directr path > > /mnt/backup/www1 into either the gloabl as also the guests own > > settings file - but it wont work. > >> what are you trying to achieve? > I want to have the Device containing the data mounted on a mountpoint > visible from the host system to run a backup via the host. so simply mounting it at some point (e.g. from the initialize script) should suffice (or even from a script manually started at host startup), no? best, Herbert > TIA > > Oliver > - -- > Protect your environment - close windows and adopt a penguin! > PGP-Key: 3B2C 8095 A7DF 8BB5 2CFF 8168 CAB7 B0DD 3985 1721 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm9Y0wACgkQyrew3TmFFyFlWwCcCKn4zs6TSi52czEvIDfiVikH > W0MAn29NUHoeCQBRLR3zPv3TGn75/Uqp > =zmgD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----