From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 17:43:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15909 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15901; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA18777; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:43:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:43:25 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Garrett Wollman cc: Eivind Eklund , Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x ) In-Reply-To: <199902091540.KAA16522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > >> A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me, > >> which I'm going to implement. It involves retargeting > >> the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS * Note this. > > > 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. See above note and reference to mount_union(8). > > -GAWollman > > -- > 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 > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message