On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:47:00PM +0200, Martin Walter wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Josef Sipek wrote: > > > > To do this is as simple as doing a rmdir union1 command. > > > > Heh. Nice idea, but I think most people would still use umount. It has > > essentially the same things to do - although the rmdir way needs to do some > > things that are done automatically by the mount/umount syscall. > > > > > The same is done with branches also and we can > > > possibly update the union while removing the branch so the user doesn't > > > need the extra step but that isn't clear yet. > > > > Hrm. Interesting. I kind of like the more explicit: > > > > echo 1 > /unionfs/union1/branch1/remove > > > > But it is essentially the same concept. > > > I like it, but what if the union is the root filesystem?
It is still a filesystem, so you cannot remove/unmount it if it is used. Jeff. -- Defenestration n. (formal or joc.): The act of removing Windows from your computer in disgust, usually followed by the installation of Linux or some other Unix-like operating system. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
