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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: unionfs problems Date: 4 Jan 1995 18:08:03 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3eeo63$lgu@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <richard-040195112112@dynamic-mac7.cam.harlequin.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <richard-040195112112@dynamic-mac7.cam.harlequin.co.uk>, Richard Brooksby <richard@harlequin.co.uk> wrote: >My 2.0 CD-ROM finally arrived! Joy! > >However, when I tried to union-mount bits of it under my current filesystem >I found that unionfs didn't work. I have been unable to get it to work >under any circumstances. The new mount always overrides the mount point >completely (when above) or is invisible (when below). > >Does unionfs work in 2.0-RELEASE? Not really. I don't think anyone had the time to test it fully, so even though it *might* work there is no guarantee that it will work. >Using the source from my shiny new CD-ROM I find that there is a patch to >libc that goes with unionfs (/usr/src/sys/miscfs/union/libc.opendir.c) but >this isn't incorporated into libc in the distribution >(/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/opendir.c is different). > >Is this the cause of the problem? I don't know, you tell me. If you get it working, send email to current@FreeBSD.org with your results. Heck, send us your results even if it's not working if you think the info. is valuable. >Also, ordinary users can't use unionfs -- vfs complains that it can't load >union. Presumably this is something to do with the lkm search path. I >haven't looked at the source for this yet. Garrett Wollman (wollman@FreeBSD.org) would be the person to ask about this. Nate -- nate@FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@schizo.coe.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Got lots of offers for work, now I need to home #: (406) 586-0579 | decide which job to take. :)