[Unionfs] unionfs has problems with file permissions

[Johannes Hirte]

Am Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:39:21 +0300
schrieb Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru>:

> Johannes Hirte wrote:
> > Ok second try, since my first mail didn't reached the ML.
> > 
> > I run into write problems with unionfs and nfs and found this
> > thread on the ML:
> > 
> > http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pipermail/unionfs/2008-November/005949.html
> > 
> > This describes pretty good my problem. I'm booting from network
> > into an initrd, mounting a tmpfs (rw) and a nfs-export (ro)
> > together with unionfs. The problem is, I can't modify a file from
> > the nfs. Deleting or creating is no problem, only modifying ends in
> > "Permission denied".
> 
> This is not unique to nfs - it also happens when the ro part is on
> a read-only media like CD-rom for example, or squashfs, whatever.
> 
> /mjt

Any progress here? In the current state unionfs is unusable.


Johannes