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Title: Chroot
Post by: rpangrazio on March 06, 2009, 06:21:33 AM
does anyone know if chroot exists for NS/OS. I was thinking of a way to get past the whole 2gb/4gb limit in NS/OS.
It might be possible to boot from a normal NS/OS partition than chroot to a second partition with a file system that doesn't have that restriction.
I would have to see about adding support for the second file system as well. But I noticed that chroot is not in the system unless I missed it.
Title: Re: Chroot
Post by: cubist on March 06, 2009, 09:44:14 AM
Quote from: "rpangrazio"does anyone know if chroot exists for NS/OS.
Nope, sorry.  Chroot is buried fairly deep in kernels affecting path evaluation and came along later in OS development.  2G isn't really that painful a limit for the base OS.  For /User you could use NFS and get more space.  And if you can write a filesystem module, you could certainly bring another filesystem implementation in natively.
Title: Chroot
Post by: rpangrazio on March 06, 2009, 12:58:52 PM
I figured it was something like that. It seemed to easy to be possible, and to not be used. Thanks for your response.

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