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Date:      Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:23:52 -0400
From:      Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com>
To:        Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [saturnero@freesbie.org: Weird behaviour of mount_unionfs with executables]
Message-ID:  <1120425831.77984.37993.camel@palm>
In-Reply-To: <20050703201621.GD89744@cvs.freesbie.org>
References:  <20050703181616.GC89744@cvs.freesbie.org> <42C83643.4010506@samsco.org> <20050703201621.GD89744@cvs.freesbie.org>

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I suspect the changes in revision 1.272 of kern_exec.c trigger the
copy operation.

Looks like you need a noatime option for union_fs.

Stephan

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 16:16, Dario Freni wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:02:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > >I'm also afraid that copying files to the upper layer also when
> > >they're not modified could fill up our mfs entirely. I'm almost sure
> > >there's a totally different behaviour under RELENG_5, as we haven't
> > >encountered such problems.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > You might very well have found a bug in the vnode pager.  I take it that
> > this doesn't happen on 5-STABLE, correct?
> 
> Correct. I'm sure that from 5.4-RELEASE to -STABLE unionfs work as
> expected for me. The very strange thing is that a recalled file is
> copied (with fixed permissions) to the upper layer even if it wasn't
> modified. In my case, the upper layer is a mdmfs, so it will be surely
> filled up to its entire size after running executables for a total
> amount of 32Mb. Quite boring.
> 
> Bye,
> Dario




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