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Date:      Wed, 01 May 2002 21:15:43 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        kudzu@tenebras.com
Cc:        utsl@quic.net, "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@allcaps.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Non-standard root filesystems 
Message-ID:   <200205012115.aa68752@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 2002 12:46:03 PDT." <3CD045FB.7060902@tenebras.com> 

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In message <3CD045FB.7060902@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio writes:
>Union filesytem is currently "busted" AFAIK in 4.5.  Perhaps Terry

I never said anything about using union filesystems; you can just
mount another filesystem directly over /, and it hides the underlying
root filesystem. This is no different from the way that mounting
/usr hides anything that might have been in the /usr directory
before it was mounted on.

Ian

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