From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 11:21:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26136 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26129 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 538 invoked by uid 100); 19 Jan 1999 19:21:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jan 1999 19:21:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:21:50 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: Nathan Ahlstrom cc: nicolas lacroix , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: create a link on a ftp In-Reply-To: <19990119124334.C2795@winternet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > > The solution is the union file system type; see > > mount_union(8). Replace the symlink with a directory, and then "mount > > -t union" the directory tree you are symlinking to onto that > > directory. > > > > At least, this works on NetBSD. Should work on FreeBSD, but I haven't > > tried it there. > > The union filesystem is broken in FreeBSD. Ugh. Is someone working on fixing it? I was going to move my FTP server from NetBSD to FreeBSD, but this would pretty much kill that.