On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 18:28, BOUWSMA Beery wrote: > > > > The only obvious `problem' is when a non-r00t user attempts to > > > access the union-mounted fs when the shadow directories have not > > > yet been created, and `permission denied' is returned for all > > > directories that exist below, but not in the unionfs fs. E.g.: > > > Yes, it is because of feature of unionfs to create shadow directories > > with credentionals of proceses doing "rise" operation. > > > > And if process have no permissions to write into parent directory > > operation fail. > > I have thought about what is best to do in a case like this. > At first, I was thinking that if a directory like this does not > presently exist in the upper (unionfs) layer, then for the case > of a read-only operation like `ls', simply fall through to display > what is present in the lower layer. > > This, if it is possible (I have no idea; I'm no hacker), would > avoid the ``hey, why can't I do a simple `ls'?!?'' type of > question.
May be you will be interested in -o union flag to any standart mount It works a bit different from special union FS. > thanks, > barry bouwsma -- TSB "Russian Express", Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
