From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 23:31:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03759 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03754 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA13610; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:33:05 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:33:04 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-inside CDE segfaulting all over the place In-Reply-To: <2816.853874120@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Well, using null and union mounts we could hold the packages anywhere we > > wanted... > > > > And they would not even notice. > > Yes they would - their systems would be crashing constantly due to the > fact that neither null or union mounts currently work worth a > damn. :-) Well... 1) Union mounts don't work - at least for me it worked like an null mount. But it kind of worked. There were no panicks due to access of the directories union-mounted. Trying to unmount it caused a panick, though 2) Null mounts "almost" work - I nullmounted my src subdirectory on /usr/src and tried make world on it. The result - it got going fairly well, but at some moment paniced and ate my /sbin. > > Seriously, there are a LOT of cool things we could do with a working > unionfs (like make /usr/obj go away and/or change significantly) but Have a real read-only root partition with /etc null-mounted from somewhere else (/var/etc ?) from rc? > after more than 2 years, I'm hardly going to hold my breath for it. > Too many things need to happen first, like the Lite2 merge, and we > haven't got enough people working on that right now to make quick > progress. Got to try to join in... (well - if anyone still takes me serious after that whats written up there :-) Sander Doing everything fs we may someday be... > > Jordan >