Eric Paris wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Another is to NFS mount the filesystem back on to the server, >> in which case James' scheme works just dandy. It's a trick that >> I've used more than once in the Unix world for this exact purpose. >> Of course you have to arrange your mount points in advance with >> malice aforethought, but that's likely something you're used to >> by now. >> > > Is this safe with NFS on Linux? I know in the past (RHEL5) mounting > NFS over loopback can cause deadlocks under even slight memory > pressure. I complained about it and was told 'don't do that, just > bind mount.' > > Sigh. Dedicate your NFS server as an NFS server and never let anyone long onto it then. The point is well past made, I think. > -Eric > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
