From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 13 3:22: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BB437B401 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15WEr4-0006gC-00; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:21:54 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 15WEr3-0003Sy-00; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:21:53 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diskless In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:00:13 +0200 (CEST) . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:21:53 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: 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 > 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). > so far rc.diskless1 only populates, so removing is not a problem. > 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. that's why im using /etc and not /conf/etc, it was becoming to complicated having more than one /etc. the nice thing is that i can use the same root for non diskless too. > > cheers > luigi chiao danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message