Subject: Re: Problem with 1.4 install floppy and panic in union filesystem
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/11/1999 15:31:11
Bernd Sieker wrote:
|- I get a reproducable panic on both my i386 machines (Cx486Dx2 and
|Celeron-A), when I do the following:
|% mount_union ./a ./b
|% mount_union ./a ./b

|I know the above probably doesn't make much sense, but it can be done
|by any unprivilieged user and crashes the system.

I guess we really should disable unionfs in generic for now.

|I will also send-pr, I searched the data base and could not find an
|appropriate pr. It seems that no-one really uses the union filesystem
|a lot.

Because it is known as buggy. :-(

Look at http://www.de.netbsd.org/Gnats/category/kern.html and search
for "union" within the page.

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