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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!gamera.zeta.org.au!not-for-mail From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: unionfs usage without "option UNION" Date: 5 Sep 1995 02:19:40 +1000 Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney - +61-2-837-1183, v.32bis v.42bis Lines: 13 Message-ID: <42f8us$us4@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <DE3uo1.1Cr@reptiles.org> <87but778nq.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> <423ulr$87@germany.eu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.zeta.org.au In article <423ulr$87@germany.eu.net>, Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net> wrote: > >With 2.0R, I used to use unionfs quite a lot. The snag was that the LKM did >not work; you had to compile the kernel with options UNION. Even then, >... >No, I don't have any idea what was going on or why LKM unionfs didn't work. getdirentries() has `#ifdef UNION' in it, so everything that calls readdir() fails with the LKM unionfs if the kernel wasn't compiled with options UNION. -- Bruce Evans bde@zeta.org.au