From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 7:51:20 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 6282337B401 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif1-6-cust12.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.3.230.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896C243E4A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 17mxyV-0003p9-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 15:51:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:51:15 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount(8) mount_union(8) and the slippery wet floor... Message-ID: <20020905145115.GA14407@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Roman Neuhauser , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020904132723.00bc28e8@mail.lusidor.nu> <20020904124832.GA15994@submonkey.net> <44y9ahecn2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020905091754.GE10717@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <44bs7c1phq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020905144627.GL10717@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020905144627.GL10717@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:46:28PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > this is interesting. I always thought that mount(8) works by > invoking mount_whatever(8) where whatever is determined by the value > passed in the -t option to mount(8). looks like this isn't the case, > then... hm: No, that is the case, but this is what confused me. > If the type is not one of the internally known types, mount will > attempt to execute a program in /sbin/mount_XXX where XXX is > replaced by the type name. For example, nfs filesystems are > mounted by the program /sbin/mount_nfs. That works if you run "mount -t union ...", but after rereading the OP's question, he was referring to "mount -o union..." which is something different. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message