Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:10:01 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning Message-ID: <45E83E49.6080808@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302144409.GA4431@icarus.home.lan> References: <00cb01c75c5b$4205e390$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E82660.4030107@freebsd.org> <008101c75cd1$42a4df10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <45E830A8.8020104@freebsd.org> <20070302144409.GA4431@icarus.home.lan>
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On 03/02/07 08:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: >> Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common, and >> very desirable. You may mount /usr from a small read-only partition >> (vnode file, etc) and then mount a different partition or NFS over it if >> you detect the one you want. >> >> I think this comes down to: if it hurts, stop doing it. :) >> >> Maybe sysinstall should warn you that you are double mounting, but I >> don't want it to stop letting me do it. > > Are we absolutely sure overlaying NFS + local UFS filesystems like > this is the cause of the filesystem corruption? > > If Eric's doing it and it's working fine, I'm left wondering if > there's maybe sysinstall isn't handling something right. > No no no - I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all, and I don't think the two are related. I was merely trying to point out that the doubling of mounts is normal, expected, and a feature. Eric
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