Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 13:28:33 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: utsl@quic.net, "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@allcaps.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-standard root filesystems Message-ID: <3CD04FF1.7080304@tenebras.com> References: <200205012115.aa68752@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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Ian Dowse wrote: > I never said anything about using union filesystems; you can just > mount another filesystem directly over /, and it hides the underlying > root filesystem. This is no different from the way that mounting > /usr hides anything that might have been in the /usr directory > before it was mounted on. You can mount a filesystem anywhere in the file hierarchy , the mount point doesn't have to be a fs, and hide the underlying directory -- but you can't do this with the root filesystem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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