From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 8:25:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F2037B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peyto.ca (h24-64-81-248.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.81.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D07143E3B for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyschow@shaw.ca) Received: (qmail 56986 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2002 15:26:25 -0000 Received: from firewall (HELO SAMCHOW1.ca.nortel.com) (192.168.1.1) by homeserver with SMTP; 4 Sep 2002 15:26:25 -0000 Message-ID: <001001c25425$0c11a000$2784412f@ca.nortel.com> From: "Samuel Chow" To: "Jimmy Lantz" Cc: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020904132723.00bc28e8@mail.lusidor.nu> <20020904124832.GA15994@submonkey.net> Subject: Re: mount(8) mount_union(8) and the slippery wet floor... Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:09:20 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ceri Davies" > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:46:42PM +0200, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My question is: > > Is the mount union mentioned in MOUNT(8) also affected by the slippery wet > > floor in MOUNT_UNION(8)?? > > Or can I safely use the mount with the option union? > > They are the same thing. > > Having said that, I heavily used mount_union for about a month back in March > or so, and I didn't have any problems with it. I have been using mount_union for /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports. No problem whatsoever. --- Samuel Chow cyschow@shaw.ca This message is displayed using recycled electrons. Segmentation Fault (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message