Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:06:43 -0400 From: utsl@quic.net To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-standard root filesystems Message-ID: <20020501200643.GC32719@quic.net> In-Reply-To: <3CD045FB.7060902@tenebras.com> References: <200205012027.aa63727@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <3CD045FB.7060902@tenebras.com>
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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:46:03PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > >I presume you know that FreeBSD already allows you to mount another > >filesystem directly over /? Do you actually need to remove the > >original root filesystem, or is it just for cosmetic reasons that > >you would like it to disappear from the mountlist? I wasn't aware that it could do that with the root filesystem. I'm not concerned about the cosmetics, only functionality. From what I read below, I think the functionality is somewhat in doubt. > Union filesytem is currently "busted" AFAIK in 4.5. Perhaps Terry > Lambert can comment more meaningfully on the cache coherency issue. Is it planned to fix it for 5.0? > We're doing work for a commercial project, but hope to return a > portion of it to the FreeBSD Project if we can get it committed -- > the politics of which are beyond my comprehension ;-) > > There is also some weirdness, IIRC, to doing union mounts which > mix RO and RW filesystems, but I may be misremembering. That's a shame. It could be useful for CDs. ---Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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