From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 14:44:10 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84DC16A401 for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:44:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from alnrmhc15.comcast.net (alnrmhc15.comcast.net [206.18.177.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD48E13C4B2 for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:44:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-71-198-0-135.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.0.135]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20070302144409b1500scvcme>; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:44:10 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 726C71FA03D; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:44:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:44:09 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070302144409.GA4431@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <00cb01c75c5b$4205e390$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E82660.4030107@freebsd.org> <008101c75cd1$42a4df10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E830A8.8020104@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45E830A8.8020104@freebsd.org> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:44:10 -0000 On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common, and > very desirable. You may mount /usr from a small read-only partition > (vnode file, etc) and then mount a different partition or NFS over it if > you detect the one you want. > > I think this comes down to: if it hurts, stop doing it. :) > > Maybe sysinstall should warn you that you are double mounting, but I > don't want it to stop letting me do it. Are we absolutely sure overlaying NFS + local UFS filesystems like this is the cause of the filesystem corruption? If Eric's doing it and it's working fine, I'm left wondering if there's maybe sysinstall isn't handling something right. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |