Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
i just experienced the above today while trying diskless, and while ls only seems to return the entries for the topmost directory, files are accessible if you know the name. no idea if this is of any help. This is exactly the right pointer, thanks! The problem appears to be great -- will

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-27 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 09:16:44PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: (about union mounts on 3.1 not returning all files with an 'ls' in 3.1 while it did in 3.0) Is it sorrect that this magic is implemented in sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c? The odd thing is that AFAICS no-one has made significant changes

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-27 Thread Tony Finch
Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: you want to commit? (after you sir...) No, really, after you ... :-) Done in 3.1 and 4 I just remembered that MNT_UNION occurs in another file which on investigation turned out to

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Tony Finch
Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: [...] Here, you did the union mount on top of an existing mount point (da1). I don't know for sure, but I suspect that this is the only case in which union mounts are designed to work. I was led to believe

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
(about union mounts on 3.1 not returning all files with an 'ls' in 3.1 while it did in 3.0) Is it sorrect that this magic is implemented in sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c? The odd thing is that AFAICS no-one has made significant changes to this code. i just experienced the above today while trying

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Tony Finch
Luigi Rizzo lu...@labinfo.iet.unipi.it wrote: (about union mounts on 3.1 not returning all files with an 'ls' in 3.1 while it did in 3.0) Is it sorrect that this magic is implemented in sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c? The odd thing is that AFAICS no-one has made significant changes to this code. i

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread John Polstra
In article e10gzo8-0003ko...@fanf.noc.demon.net, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: Luigi Rizzo lu...@labinfo.iet.unipi.it wrote: i just experienced the above today while trying diskless, and while ls only seems to return the entries for the topmost directory, files are accessible if you know

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
you want to commit? (after you sir...) julian On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: In article e10gzo8-0003ko...@fanf.noc.demon.net, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: Luigi Rizzo lu...@labinfo.iet.unipi.it wrote: i just experienced the above today while trying diskless, and while

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread John Polstra
Julian Elischer wrote: you want to commit? (after you sir...) No, really, after you ... :-) Seriously, I don't know the code in question very well. I'd rather not commit it myself. John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: you want to commit? (after you sir...) No, really, after you ... :-) Done in 3.1 and 4 julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-25 Thread John Polstra
In article e10fg4c-00013j...@fanf.noc.demon.net, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: I have been experimenting with union mounts today with a recent -stable (cvsupped yesterday), and I haven't had much luck. Because cvsup likes to obliterate local changes, You might wish to CVSup the repository

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: [...] Here, you did the union mount on top of an existing mount point (da1). I don't know for sure, but I suspect that this is the only case in which union mounts are designed to work. I was led to believe (last time I read the code) that any

mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-24 Thread Tony Finch
I have been experimenting with union mounts today with a recent -stable (cvsupped yesterday), and I haven't had much luck. Because cvsup likes to obliterate local changes, I thought it would be convenient to keep the altered files on a separate filesystem and use a union mount to overlay them on