Re: FreeBSD devfs support on NetBSD 5.0

[Brett Lymn <blymn%baesystems.com.au@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:07:46PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> I think mount_union(8) as extended to support devfs also needs to stay
> much the same as it is.  It's already somewhat well debugged and
> understood too, so extending it to support devfs is a no-brainer, at
> least as far as I can tell.  Maybe it does need to be rewritten given
> the number of war stories and bug reports about it, but that wouldn't be
> a bad thing either.
> 

mkdir /tmp/foo
mount -t union /var/tmp /tmp/foo
mount -t union /var/tmp /tmp/foo

debugged? I think not.  Locking worms aplenty.

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