Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:52:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@aros.net> Cc: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: partitions and things that go bump in the night Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970514085011.947K-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199705132126.PAA03928@shell.aros.net>
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Michael K. Sanders wrote: > In message <199705131721.KAA15767@seagull.rtd.com>, Don Yuniskis writes: > > ... > > > I've previously done this with /usr residing on the SCSI drives > >but get annoyed at the fact that /usr/bin, /usr/sbin are not available > >when I dismount the SCSI devices. Mounting just /usr/local on the > >SCSI drives doesn't help accomodate other things added to /usr. > >So, I think overlaying /usr *completely* with the external device > >is also a win. > > Sounds like a good applicaiton for unionfs, thought I don't know if > it's currently functional in FreeBSD. Its getting better in current. Last time I played with it, I mounted an empty directory on /usr/src and tried running 'make all'. It got a fair way before it choked. There was some file corruption (in new files, existing files are safe) which could probably be attributed to mmap. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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