On Tue, 01 Nov 2005, Shaya Potter spake: > No Fist based file system really crosses mount points (This came up > years ago on the fistgen list).
Blast. That eliminates, oh, every single use case I've thought of so far (I use union mounts and private namespaces heavily: without mount-point crossing, most of my system seems to disappear). Looks like I'll have to get used to fistgen and remove this unpleasant restriction :/ right now I'm not even sure if unionfs has forked from its fistgen origins or not: it looks like it has, but I can't really tell. (IMNSHO, *nothing* in Unix (other than umount and df) should behave differently with mount points versus ordinary directories. Anything else destroys much of the utility of mount...) > I chroot into a unionfs all the time without any problems. Yeah, I'd have trouble understanding how that could go wrong (how could the FS even tell?) Bind-mounts and private (non-CLONE_FS) mounts of unionfs also work fine, as one would expect. -- `"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".' --- James Nicoll _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
