At 01:38 pm 16/3/98 +0000, Andrew McMurry wrote:
>
>Has anyone else used the union mount filing system?
>
>I have stopped using it now. I am not certain that it was resonsible, but
>strange things started happening after I had put a union mount entry into
>/etc/fstabs to mount /usr/tmp over /tmp (so that gcc would have enough
>space).
>
>On two occasions a directory on the /usr partition had its inode info
>messed up, so that it appeared to be a Block device with huge major and
>minor device numbers. The first time it happened it was back to normal
>when I rebooted, the second time, it didn't go away, and fsck spent ages
>finding disconnected files that used to be beneath the affected directory.

I've used it a couple of times when trying to do a NetBSD build. I didn't
have any problems, but I can vaguely remember seeing some suggestions on
current-users that it's not particularly safe.

Cheers,


Miles