From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 26 14:26:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A18614CA3 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id VAA26475; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:16:44 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199902262016.VAA26475@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: mount -o union broken recently? To: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:16:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tony Finch" at Feb 26, 99 01:35:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 776 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (about union mounts on 3.1 not returning all files with an 'ls' in 3.1 while it did in 3.0) > Is it sorrect that this magic is implemented in sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c? > The odd thing is that AFAICS no-one has made significant changes to > this code. i just experienced the above today while trying diskless, and while ls only seems to return the entries for the topmost directory, files are accessible if you know the name. no idea if this is of any help. on a related subject; i noticed that using mount_null on a directory with device entries (e.g. still in the diskless case, say /foo/dev is an mfs partition with device entries, and i do a mount_null /foo/dev /dev ) causes very bad effects such as crashing the system when i start X. ideas about this as well ? luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message