From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Union mount directory behavior?
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:37:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0901272137x49894a44w30aa65d854e899c4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128050202.GF7757@masters6.cs.jhu.edu>
> term% ramfs -m /n/ram1
> term% ramfs -m /n/ram2
> term% bind /n/ram1 /n/ram
> term% bind -a /n/ram2 /n/ram
> term% mkdir /n/ram1/test
> term% mkdir /n/ram2/test
> term% touch /n/ram1/test/foo
> term% touch /n/ram2/test/bar
> term% ls -l /n/ram
> d-rwxrwxr-x M 47 nwf nwf 0 Jan 27 23:55 /n/ram/test
> d-rwxrwxr-x M 45 nwf nwf 0 Jan 27 23:55 /n/ram/test
> term% ls -l /n/ram/test
> --rw-rw-r-- M 45 nwf nwf 0 Jan 27 23:55 /n/ram/test/foo
> term% cat /n/ram/test/bar
> cat: can't open /n/ram/test/bar: '/n/ram/test/bar' does not exist
>
> Why don't I see /n/ram/test/bar?
Unions are not recursive.
You put two directories named test in /n/ram.
Because of the -a on the second bind, the one
from ram1 comes first. When you cd into test,
you get the one from ram1. That one only contains foo.
Russ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 5:37 UTC|newest]
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2009-01-28 5:02 Nathaniel W Filardo
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