From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 30 6:48:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from axolotl.ic.gc.ca (axolotl.ic.gc.ca [198.103.246.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B45215748 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from antonio@axolotl.ic.gc.ca) Received: from localhost (antonio@localhost) by axolotl.ic.gc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA10738 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:48:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from antonio@axolotl.ic.gc.ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:48:23 -0500 (EST) From: Antonio Bemfica To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Is UNION fs still broken? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The subject says it all. I've seen warnings over the years about the UNION fs not really being usable. Has the situation changed? Is it safe to use? I would like to share my "/usr/local" partition with a test machine (mounted read-only) and would also like some users on the test machine to be able to add stuff from the ports, and play around a bit (they are training). Other than mounting my "/usr/local" as /usr/local_1 on the test machine and modifying paths, ldconfig paths and so on, the UNION fs looks like the perfect solution (if it is reliable...). Any ideas? Antonio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message