On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:34 -0600, Brian Harring wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:50:38PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> > One moan: unionfs doesn't seem willing to cross mount points, which
> > eliminates one major potential use:
> > 
> > mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/tmp/rwdir=rw:/=ro none /tmp/unionfs
> > chroot /tmp/unionfs
> > # do stuff, say a make install, in perfect safety
> Crossing mount points doesn't bother me too much, what I've had issues 
> with is any chroot'd unionfs / results in compilation failures I've 
> not been able to track down (both 1.0.14 and 1.1.1).

i didn't see the message originally. 

No Fist based file system really crosses mount points (This came up
years ago on the fistgen list).

I chroot into a unionfs all the time without any problems.

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