[Unionfs] kernel oops when defining more then one unionfs over tmpfs

Erez Zadok ezk at cs.sunysb.edu
Mon Jul 16 17:05:23 EDT 2007


In message <200707162201.22366.rene.mayrhofer at gibraltar.at>, Rene Mayrhofer writes:

> On Montag 16 Juli 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:
> > > I run linux distribution, debian based, and when I define more then on
> > > unionfs over tmpfs, like:
> > >
> > > /etc as unionfs and RW dir is: /etc_rw over tmpfs, and the same for /var
> > > the kernel oops and get stuck.
> >
> > David, I'm unclear from your description what you've done precisely.=20
> 
> Might be the same bug that I am having trouble with, and I
> have /system/ramdisks/var and /system/ramdisks/etc, both as tmpfs, used as
> 
> the rw portion for /system/root/var and /system/root/etc mounted as /var
> and /etc, respectively (/system/root is just / bind-mounted).
> 
> Rene

Could very well be, Rene (that would actually be nice -- killing two birds
in one shot :-).

I downloaded your livecd image and will try it soon.

Erez.


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