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Date:      Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:10:01 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,  freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning
Message-ID:  <45E83E49.6080808@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070302144409.GA4431@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <00cb01c75c5b$4205e390$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E82660.4030107@freebsd.org> <008101c75cd1$42a4df10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E830A8.8020104@freebsd.org> <20070302144409.GA4431@icarus.home.lan>

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On 03/02/07 08:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 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.
> 


No no no - I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all, and I 
don't think the two are related.  I was merely trying to point out that 
the doubling of mounts is normal, expected, and a feature.

Eric




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