From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 13 3: 7:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E91637B407 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25368; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:00:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200108131000.MAA25368@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: diskless In-Reply-To: from Danny Braniss at "Aug 12, 2001 05:04:28 pm" To: Danny Braniss Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:00:13 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hi, > i modified rc.diskless1 to use union fs like: > > mount_md 1024 /conf/etc 0 > mount -t union /conf/etc /etc > > any reason why this might be problematic? not sure, i think i tried this at some point and had problems with bugs in the implementation of mount_union. If it works for you then i guess it is not problematic. One thing you cannot do with the above is delete files which are in the lower filesystem (not that the current rc.diskless1 does, but in principle you might want to do this). the solution currently in rc.diskless1 actually does a merge of 2-3 different filesystems, so between the mounts you have to populate /conf/etc as well. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message