Hi,

I am trying out unionfs for an embedded project where I want to allow
updates and writes to a R/O squashfs filesystem. The union is created in
linuxrc like so

mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/storage=rw:/realroot=ro none /union

where /storage is a writable ext3 filesystem and /realroot is the R/O
squashfs filesystem. The usual chroot then takes place, linuxrc exits
and the init process starts

Everything works great except for one thing, maybe this is an
intentional feature that I've fundamentally misunderstood, but will it
ever be possible to update the permissions on a directory in the union
now?

For instance changing permissions on /opt from "drwxr-x--- root root" to
"drwxrwxrwx root root" seems to work alright. But my ordinary user still
cannot access it, i.e. ls /opt: Permission denied.

Using Linux 2.6.13.4 and unionfs-20051109-1835 snapshot.

Any help appreciated!

Thanks,

Tobias

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