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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: unionfs problems
Date: 4 Jan 1995 21:07:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <richard-040195112112@dynamic-mac7.cam.harlequin.co.uk>,
Richard Brooksby <richard@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
>My 2.0 CD-ROM finally arrived!  Joy!
>
>However, when I tried to union-mount bits of it under my current filesystem
>I found that unionfs didn't work.  I have been unable to get it to work
>under any circumstances.  The new mount always overrides the mount point
>completely (when above) or is invisible (when below).
>
>Does unionfs work in 2.0-RELEASE?

In a word, No.  However, there are a number of people working on it,
the most serious group being in the U.K.  We hope to have unionfs out
of the `prototype' stage and more into the `working' stage [:-)] for
2.1.

						Jordan