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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:21:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To:        Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
Cc:        nicolas lacroix <datasafe@netscape.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: create a link on a ftp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901191120430.24207-100000@guru.phone.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990119124334.C2795@winternet.com>

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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.

	<mike



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