On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Andrew McMurry wrote:

> Has anyone else used the union mount filing system?

I union mounted a bit of disk over /usr/local when I first installed
1.2G. My idea was to keep the stuff that I made locally seperate from
the stuff in /usr/local which comes from the RiscBSD distribution.

I stopped using it because I had problems - though my problems were
different to those you describe (when the system was busy I would end up
with a deadlock situation were something went wrong with the union mount
and every process that tried to access /usr/local would block
indefinately).

Regards

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Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                     Oxford University, UK
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