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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 15:26:37 -0600
From:      "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@aros.net>
To:        Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: partitions and things that go bump in the night 
Message-ID:  <199705132126.PAA03928@shell.aros.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 10:21:13 PDT." <199705131721.KAA15767@seagull.rtd.com> 

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In message <199705131721.KAA15767@seagull.rtd.com>, Don Yuniskis writes:

...

>     I've previously done this with /usr residing on the SCSI drives
>but get annoyed at the fact that /usr/bin, /usr/sbin are not available
>when I dismount the SCSI devices.  Mounting just /usr/local on the
>SCSI drives doesn't help accomodate other things added to /usr.
>So, I think overlaying /usr *completely* with the external device
>is also a win.

Sounds like a good applicaiton for unionfs, thought I don't know if
it's currently functional in FreeBSD.




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