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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:43:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cleanup of rc.conf ( -4.x )
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902092042470.17722-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199902091540.KAA16522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:00:54 +0100, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
> 
> >> A much better way to do rc.diskless was suggested to me,
> >> which I'm going to implement.  It involves retargeting
> >> the /conf/ME softlink by mount_union'ing a small MFS 
* Note this.

> 
> > Union mounts do not work, and I believe they are some distance from
> > working (unless you have better patches than I do, of course).
> 
> Last I checked, union mounts work just fine, thank you very much.
> unionfs (which should have been called `translucentfs') is what
> doesn't work.

See above note and reference to mount_union(8).

> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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