Subject: Re: Am I under attack or what?
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 01/19/1998 17:59:01
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:50:01AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> I'm still having these hangs.  I have another clue.  Out of 3 machines
> running NetBSD 1.3, this is the only one using union mounts.  Is it
> possible that the union mount code is getting messed up and jamming
> the system?  Thinking about it, we recently moved our web page to
> a directory involved in union mounting.  Although the union mounts
> were there all along (and were accessed) this is the first time that
> it would have been hit steadily.  I did test the new pages after
> the switch without problems but perhaps there is something else I
> am missing that has to happen at the same time.

I would not use union mounts for a "production" filesystem.. it could
be the source of your problems. Maybe you should try disabling it.

- Frank