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Date:      Sat, 30 May 1998 23:24:07 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... 
Message-ID:  <199805301524.XAA22197@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 00:23:40 MST." <15986.896513020@time.cdrom.com> 

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > The logical thing would be for "undelete" to work here...
> 
> Assuming removals became whiteouts, yes.  The only fs I know which
> currently does that is unionfs, however.
> 
> > Have you tried that ?
> 
> See above - what good would that do? :)  I even tried it with
> unionfs, just for grins, and it wouldn't allow me to change
> anything at all. :)
> 
> Oh yeah, Eivind: I also tried the mv trick, mounting the 2nd instance
> and then moving a file over?  Works great, but with an unforseen
> side-effect:  You can't unmount the 2nd filesystem instance after
> that. :-)

Well, that'll teach you for shooting your foot off in the first place. :-)

Seriously though, 'ln' was what Julian told me to use.  It might make a 
difference since it's not making a change to the source instance.  On the 
other hand, it also sounds like some reference counting/locking problem.

> - Jordan

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>   Netplex Consulting



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