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Re: [Xen-users] Is using w! safe to share data between domains?

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:21 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:37, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > I have a slightly unusual situation where I need to pass data from one
> > domain to another but, for security reasons, one of the domains will not
> > be on the network.  I would like to pass the data via a shared disk
> > partition.  I would like to know if what I have done is safe.
> 
> Have you considered giving the networkless domain a vif but firewalling it 
> off 
> from everything you don't trust?  Having network available would make this 
> kind of sharing much easier, since you could use NFS (purely networked), GFS 
> or OCFS2 (both disk-based but require a network component to work).
> 
<snip>
Yes, that was the second choice.  We are trying to protect our
Certificate Authorities as much as possible.  Thanks to everyone for
their help - John
-- 
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Open Source Development Corporation
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