On 06-05-05 08:18, "Danny Braniss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Eirik �verby writes: >>> [...] >>> What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has >>> anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if >>> it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or energy to look >>> into it? I'm an admin only, no coder, otherwise I'd be happy to look into it >>> myself. >> >> I'm using unionfs to mount a copy of my ports tree into a jail on a >> fairly currently patched 5.3 system. It works beautifully except that >> it sometimes can't be unmounted as the machine shuts down, leading to >> an fsck. >> >> I've been trying to characterize it. Seems like I can mount it, start >> a jail, stop the jail, and unmount it just fine. However if I do >> anything in the jail's ports tree, then it won't unmount. Last >> experiment I did was to log into the jail and do a couple of 'syncs', >> then log out, shut the jail down and unmount it. That worked that one >> time. >> >> Not enough to file a bug yet, but the anecdote might be useful. > > > we use unionfs with our diskless, mounting the read-only root via nfs, then > union /etc with a memory file system, the per host files (rc.conf, fstab ...) > get copied to it, so that after a reboot no need to fsck anything. works > like a charm! Interesting approach. Is this with 4.x or 5.x? How do you union-mount /etc (mount command/fstab entry)? /Eirik > > a happy user of unionfs, > danny > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
