From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 15 6:16:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vbook.express.ru (asplinux.ru [195.133.213.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBFD637B417 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:16:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from vova by vbook.express.ru with local (Exim 3.31 #2) id 164NJI-0000Bl-00; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:16:08 +0300 From: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15347.52775.823557.9009@vbook.express.ru> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:16:07 +0300 To: Attila Nagy Cc: Danny Braniss , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: union fs In-Reply-To: <20011115115819.P18123-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> References: <20011115115819.P18123-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Attila Nagy writes: > Hello, > > > I've been running several dataless/diskless machines with union-fs > > (for the /etc stuff) with no - apparent - problems for several months > > now, so i was wondering if the commnet about it being buggy still > > holds? > Try to run a program on a union-mounted FS which uses sendfile() to > transfer data (the easiest to try is the webfsd from the ports tree). It > will send garbage, collected from various places from your harddrive. Try to make device/fifo's on above/below union levels and use it. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu > Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU) @work: +361 210 1415 (194) > H-1084 Budapest, Tavaszmezo u. 15-17. cell.: +3630 306 6758 -- TSB Russian Express, Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, vova@express.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message