From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 4:45: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF1837B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 04:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bouba.alxhost.com (bouba.alxhost.com [66.96.220.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E77C43E6E for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 04:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com) Received: from [212.162.175.101] (helo=lusidor2002.lusidor.com) by bouba.alxhost.com with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17mYaS-0001b8-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:44:44 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020904132723.00bc28e8@mail.lusidor.nu> X-Sender: lusidor@mail.lusidor.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 13:46:42 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jimmy Lantz Subject: mount(8) mount_union(8) and the slippery wet floor... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bouba.alxhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - lusidor.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, My question is: Is the mount union mentioned in MOUNT(8) also affected by the slippery wet= =20 floor in MOUNT_UNION(8)?? Or can I safely use the mount with the option union? Tia Jim MOUNT(8) Theres an option of mount union, "union Causes the namespace at the mount point to appear as the union of=20 the mounted filesystem root and the existing directory. Lookups will be=20 done in the mounted filesys=AD tem first. If those operations fail due to a= =20 non-exis=AD tent file the underlying directory is then accessed. All creates= =20 are done in the mounted filesystem. " Ok, good enough, then I lookup MOUNT_UNION(8) and there I see the BUG notice about the DOG and SLIPPERY WET FLOOR,... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message