> > > > I've got a little problem here and I'm not sure if I did something wrong
> > > > on my side or if there is something wrong with unionfs 1.0.14 (up to the
> > > > latest snapshot).
> > > > 
> > > > My problem:
> > > > I have three branches mounted on /:
> > > > 0: /mnt/rw (tmpfs, read-write)
> > > > 1: /mnt/custom (ext2, read-only)
> > > > 2: /mnt/rootfs (ext2, read-only)
> > > > 
> > > > I'm in my home directory.
> > > > I do a 'unionctl / --add --mode ro /mnt/test'.
> > > > This one works without a problem.
> > > 
> > > this confuses me.
> > > 
> > > so you have 3 directories
> > > 
> > > /mnt/rw
> > > /mnt/custom
> > > /mnt/rootfs
> > > 
> > > which you union as /
> > > 
> > > then you add /mnt/test
> > > 
> > > so basically you seem to be trying to union a lower directory with
> > > itself.  This seems to be setting you up for major pain, as you could
> > > change the union below unionfs by just modifying /mnt/test directly.
> > 
> > As '/mnt' is mounted from a different partition this shouldn't effect
> > UnionFS, correct?
> 
> no, I think it would, but I'm not an expert on this.  What I'd perhaps
> do (but again not an expert) is creeate a /newroot with unionfs and then
> pivot root to /newroot, but don't know if that work.

I just tried a few snapshots in between the 1.0.13 and 1.0.14 release.
It still works without a deadlock in 20050811-0941, but is broken in
20050829-0915.  I'm going to further track it down tomorrow..
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