Subject: Re: Are union mounts broken?
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 07/29/1997 09:24:02
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:43:41 -0400 
 Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:

 > I'm running 1.2G (sup'ed last night) kernel and user on my laptop.
 > My filesystems are 4.4bsd.  I'd like to be able to do
 > 
 > 	mount -t union -o -b /usr/src ~/cvs/src
 > 
 > but I get union: Operation not supported.  Referencing to the man
 > pages I think I'm doing everything right.  
 > 
 > Any ideas?

"Operation not supported" is the error that occurs when the file system is
not configured into the kernel, I believe... Might want to double-check
that "options UNION" is in the config file... other than that, no ideas
here; since it's your laptop, I'm assuming that NFS isn't in the loop...

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