Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 23:24:07 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <199805301524.XAA22197@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 00:23:40 MST." <15986.896513020@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > The logical thing would be for "undelete" to work here... > > Assuming removals became whiteouts, yes. The only fs I know which > currently does that is unionfs, however. > > > Have you tried that ? > > See above - what good would that do? :) I even tried it with > unionfs, just for grins, and it wouldn't allow me to change > anything at all. :) > > Oh yeah, Eivind: I also tried the mv trick, mounting the 2nd instance > and then moving a file over? Works great, but with an unforseen > side-effect: You can't unmount the 2nd filesystem instance after > that. :-) Well, that'll teach you for shooting your foot off in the first place. :-) Seriously though, 'ln' was what Julian told me to use. It might make a difference since it's not making a change to the source instance. On the other hand, it also sounds like some reference counting/locking problem. > - Jordan Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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