On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:43:47AM +0100, Philipp Börker wrote: > I am hacking around with a portable linux media-player. This > media-player uses a compressed ramdisk (cramfs) to hold its mini-linux > distribution which therefore can't be modified by a user as the cramfs > is read-only. I already added unionfs to the firmware and specify the > directories in this order: /opt=ro:/progfs/unionfs/opt=rw
Branches are accessed left to right, so I think you want: /progfs/unionfs/opt=rw:/opt=ro > There is now a major change in behaviour of the media-player, the > harddisk doesn't spin down anymore or more precisely it spins down > just to spin up again immediately. Try to mount the union the other way around (see above). > Will unionfs always access all directories specified for a union > upon a read operation and therefore make the harddisk spin up? It shouldn't do that, my guess it that unionfs is a little confused because the branches are in the "wrong" order. Jeff. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
