On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:20:14PM +0200, raflik-nb wrote:
> Hello, I am a new user of vserver (on Debian) and found this in FAQ:
> ===
> How can I copy anything from host to guest partition, normally
> unvisible on host?
~~~~~~~~~~~ (should be invisible, but hey :)
> You should just change namespace, e.g.:
> vnamespace --enter <xid> -- /bin/bash
> and then use standard cp or rsync programs.
> ===
> What I see is the guest filesystem in /var/lib/<vserver>
which means it is _visible_ on the host
> and I can copy files there which are instantly visible
> from the guest.
which is expected ...
> What issue does that piece of advice actually address?
mainly filesystems not mounted on the host, like
for example the /tmp (tmpfs) only mounted inside
the guest (or other filesystems not shared with
the host namespace)
> I find it a bit confusing.
hope this clarifies,
Herbert
> Greets,
> raflik