From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 00:53:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14961 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 00:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14955 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 00:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA16198; Wed, 14 May 1997 08:52:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:52:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Michael K. Sanders" cc: Don Yuniskis , FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: partitions and things that go bump in the night In-Reply-To: <199705132126.PAA03928@shell.aros.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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