current-users: Re: tmpfs and union mounts

Subject: Re: tmpfs and union mounts
To: None <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 10/16/2005 02:16:18

> I'm trying to do a union mount involving a tmpfs file system.  
> Unfortunately, I'm getting 'operation not supported'.  Is it supposed 
> to work?

(assuming you mean unionfs)

no.  tmpfs doesn't have whiteout.

YAMAMOTO Takashi