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From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: Unionfs in -mm
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:48:04 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:08:57PM -0500, Jason Lunz wrote:
...
> But I have a bug to report. I'm trying out yesterday's 24-patch series
> on 2.6.20-rc4 (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/481661).
> 
> The root filesystem is a union of a ro squashfs and a rw tmpfs.
> The initramfs sets it up something like this:
> 
> mkdir /os
> mount -r -t squashfs /dev/ram0 /os
> 
> mkdir /cow
> mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755 tmpfs /cow
> 
> mount -w -o dirs=/cow=rw:/os=ro -t unionfs unionfs /root
 
>>From the names of the mountpoint I assume you chroot, pivot_root, etc.
Right?
 
Does the problem manifest itself when you mount proc on /root/proc?
 
Thanks for trying the code,

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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