From owner-freebsd-fs Wed May 1 13:28:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBF9037B41B for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 13:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14241 invoked from network); 1 May 2002 20:28:34 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (66.92.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 1 May 2002 20:28:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3CD04FF1.7080304@tenebras.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 13:28:33 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020427 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Dowse Cc: utsl@quic.net, "Andrew P. Lentvorski" , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-standard root filesystems References: <200205012115.aa68752@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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