From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 09:24:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11938 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:24:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11928; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:24:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA58629; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:24:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902091724.JAA58629@apollo.backplane.com> To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Eivind Eklund , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x ) References: <199902090414.UAA49929@apollo.backplane.com> <19990209160054.B95806@bitbox.follo.net> <199902091540.KAA16522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :>> the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS : :> Union mounts do not work, and I believe they are some distance from :> working (unless you have better patches than I do, of course). : :Last I checked, union mounts work just fine, thank you very much. :unionfs (which should have been called `translucentfs') is what :doesn't work. : :-GAWollman union mounts are broken. I must have panic'd my test box 50 times trying to get them to work. null mounts are also broken -- mmap()ing NFS based files through a null mount doesn't work, amoung other things. Fortunately I found another way using the less sophisticated -o union type of mount ( verses the more sophisticated mount_union ). -Matt Matthew Dillon :-- :Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same :wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom :Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame :MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message