Hi, I have a problem with overlapping branches which I don't quite understand. I hope you could give me some hints on by-passing it.
Let's say I have an hdd with one partition only and a standard linux distribution with / mounted from that partition. Now, I'd like to create another partition in a file somewhere in /, use it as a loop device, and then union mount /=ro + file-based partition=rw. Until now, I couldn't achieve that. I always get "/ is overlapped" error, no matter what 'tricks' I tried. Is there a way to do this? I need it for a kind of a sandbox, but I cannot use tmpfs as rw branch since the size of data written to this fs will most probably exceed the RAM size and I'd like to avoid swapping. I was also thinking about splitting my hdd into several partition which could be mounted separately, without interfering with the root partition. But I'm thinking about it as a last resort. Would it work as I expect? WBR, Adam Romanek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev
