Re: Unionmount. Basic details

[Carl Fredrik Hammar]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:18:34PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> Carl Fredrik Hammar <hammy.lite@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I actually realized a couple of days ago that unionmount could probably
> >> be done by a combination of nsmux and unionfs: I think it should be
> >> possible to do something like
> >> 
> >>    settrans veth /hurd/unionfs veth veth,,eth-multiplexer
> >> 
> >> (I didn't want to bring this up yet, to avoid further confusion :-) )
> >
> > Bootstrapping a unionmount of nsmux like might be tricky.  ;-)
> 
> Hm, browsing through my memory I cannot remember why setting a
> unionmount translator via nsmux would be tricky. It's no trickier that
> setting it through settrans, IMHO :-)

It was just intended as a quick comment, but perhaps I should of
explained further.  In the example nsmux is used to do a unionmount,
but nsmux itself is a translator you'd want to unionmount.  So you'd
need an unionmount of nsmux to unionmount nsmux, in which case you'd
already have a nsmux instance you can use.  :-)

Regards,
  Fredrik