>I'd like to create a union mount /home/eswierk/root consisting of aread-only >replica of / and a writable scratch directory/home/eswierk/scratch. Of course >since the scratch directory livesunder /, this means that the branches overlap. >I built a version of unionfs-1.1.2 with the overlap checks commentedout, so >the mount works. Odd things happen if I attempt to write to afile in >/home/eswierk/root/home/eswierk/scratch, but no serious damageseems to occur. >What other risks are there in using overlapping branches this way? > It does not overlap on mountpoint boundaries, though. So if /home was a different mountpoint than /, /union/home would be empty though /home is not.
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