Josef Sipek wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:36:35AM -0700, Stephen Samuel wrote:
I'm running into a weird situation where I'm getting a strange
complaint -- moving a regular file to a different directory gets a
complaint about moving it to a subdirectory of itself....
Odd.
Now, exploring the writable folder, about the only thing I can see is
that in the destination directory, there is both a whiteout and the file
itself. (is that supposed to be a nono?)
That is bad. Unionfs is know to act oddly if you have both the file and the
whiteout.
I'm wondering, did you do anything with the lower branches/directories
directly?
Not in the directory in question. I did, however attach and detach the
upper directory ( /media/hdc3/union ). and change /ramdisk to ro and
back to rw (trying to see what it took to ensure that the upper
directory got written to instead of the lower directory. I also manually
created /var in /media/hdc3/union while it was attached. (then deleted
it when it wasn't used).
What I determined then is that unionfs has strange rules for when it
starts to use the highest branch when there are multiple rw branches.
If you want, I can retry my experiments and be a bit more careful to
document what I do.
(I'm running knoppix, so it should be easy enough to start from a known
state)
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