Re: [RFC] union-mount stuff

From: Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 10:19:37 EST


On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:

> A) suppose we have a bunch of filesystems union-mounted on
> /foo/bar. We do chdir("/foo/bar"), what should become busy? Variants:
> mountpoint, first element, last element, all of them.

I'd lean towards mountpoint only for both the union and normal case. Why
claim we're busy when we don't need to?

Does union mounting over an existing tree show the tree beneath?

And what's the plan for creating files in a union? Copy the Plan9
approach?

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