From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 08:26:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21932 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 08:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21923 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 08:26:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id XAA22197; Sat, 30 May 1998 23:24:08 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199805301524.XAA22197@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 00:23:40 MST." <15986.896513020@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 23:24:07 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message