>Hi!! I just tested unionfs-20051013-1721 with the patch named too -> works 
>surprisingly well :-)
>
>With (unpatched) unionfs-20051024-1502 I got strange errors: 
>echo bla > /etc/fstab (tempfs union over ro nfs) --> permission denied
>
>rm /etc/fstab; echo bla > /etc/fstab  --> worked

Well it's not so strange when you consider the situation after rm: You 
write to the ram-backed 'fstab'.

Read the readmes and look for -DNFS_SECURITY_HOLE. I think that's it.
(Details: It is about the NFS server returning -EACCES rather than -EROFS 
for readonly mounts, so it is hard to distinguish between 1. Permission 
Denied 2. Filesystem is really readonly.)


Jan Engelhardt
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