Re: union mounts, mfs, and newsyslog

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Martin S. Weber<Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:40:15AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> 2009/7/8 Zafer AydoÄan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>:
>> > (...)
>> > fyi:
>> > this way you can use tmpfs over union. this is the only way to get
>> > tmpfs over union working. i'm using this since a while. it isn't
>> > documented anywhere.
>> >
>>
>> Sounds like a good addition to the tmpfs man page. Â:)
>
> And an answer to kern/35112 ?

>Originator:     Martin S. Weber
As I read it, the spirit of your bug report is that tmpfs lacks an
ability that mfs has.  As I see it, that is still the case even though
this mount option might solve a specific use case (a single directory)
that you have.