From owner-freebsd-small Sat Mar 3 18: 4:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from fuoco.ombra.lan (c1080065-a.chmpgn1.il.home.com [24.17.3.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99EF37B719 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:04:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgiacomoni@ombra.org) Received: by fuoco.ombra.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1367D5D16; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:59:08 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:59:08 -0600 From: John Giacomoni To: Jay Kuri Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd and alternatives Message-ID: <20010303195908.A69106@fuoco.ombra.lan> References: <200103012303.QAA11839@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from "Jay Kuri" on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:11:59PM Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Also, does anyone understand the difference between mount -o union > and mount_union? I played with mount -o union and was happy and disappointed at the same time. it does do the trick of overlaying a FS ontop of another. the catch is only for the root directory of the fs you overlayed. all children directories are part of the bottom file system.. so it doesn't work for overlaying memfs ontop of say a static /var John G -- Code is obstinate like a two year old... with logic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message