[email protected] wrote: > Hello Skylar, > > Skylar Thompson: > >> I'm trying to setup an aufs branch that consists of another aufs branch >> and a davfs mount. I'm using the latest CVS checkout (20090126), so I >> realize I'm in unsupported territory, but I'm wondering if anyone has >> gotten this to work. I can get it almost working, but I get corrupted >> directory listings and inaccessible files. >> > ::: > >> I'm using /UNIONFS/bccd/software as my read/write branch, /mnt/bccd as >> my read-only branch, and /UNIONFS/bccd/software.local as the mount point >> for aufs. When I run "ls -l" on the mount, I get output like this: >> > > Aufs branch of another aufs mount is supported, but it must be readonly. > Since you have enabled CONFIG_AUFS_ROBR, you have read > > config AUFS_ROBR > bool "Aufs as an readonly branch of another aufs mount" > help > If you want make your aufs to be a part of another aufs, then > enable this option. In other words, you can specify your aufs > path in 'br:' mount option for another aufs, but cannot > specify 'rw' as the branch permission. > It will have a negative impact to the performance. > See detail in aufs.5. > >
I must have missed that. This isn't a big deal for us, since I think I can get what I need in user-space with Modules. > To be honest, the success of your mount is a bug. I intended to make > "writable aufs branch" rejected. > Additionally I have not tested coda(davfs?) branch... > aufs with davfs does work with a local filesystem, just not with another aufs branch. I tested both the fuse and coda option for it, although our DAV server is read-only so I didn't test writing to DAV. Thanks, -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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