Well, mnt started working again, but ennui stopped, so I used that as an example instead. Ah. The branch is cramfs and these are empty directories. Would cloop work any better than cramfs? Or another version of cramfs (you mention that it is the one in linux stable).
Thanks Sassan On Dec 3, 2007 4:30 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > the directory: > > 13 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 60 Dec 3 04:24 ennui > > in the read only branch: > > 1 drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 0 Jan 1 1970 ennui > > Do you mean the second output is for 'mnt', instead of 'ennui'? > > Still I don't understand what your situation is, I guess you meet the > known problemm of cramfs branch. > > (quote from the aufs manual) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Cramfs in linux stable release has strange inodes and it makes aufs > confused. For example, > .nf > $ mkdir -p w/d1 w/d2 > $ > w/z1 > $ > w/z2 > $ mkcramfs w cramfs > $ sudo mount -t cramfs -o ro,loop cramfs /mnt > $ find /mnt -ls > 76 1 drwxr-xr-x 1 jro 232 64 Jan 1 1970 /mnt > 1 1 drwxr-xr-x 1 jro 232 0 Jan 1 1970 /mnt/d1 > 1 1 drwxr-xr-x 1 jro 232 0 Jan 1 1970 /mnt/d2 > 1 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 jro 232 0 Jan 1 1970 /mnt/z1 > 1 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 jro 232 0 Jan 1 1970 /mnt/z2 > .fi > > All these two directories and two files have the same inode with one > as their link count. Aufs cannot handle such inode correctly. > Currently, aufs involves a tiny workaround for such inodes. But some > applications may not work correctly since aufs inode number for such > inode will change silently. > If you do not have any empty files, empty directories or special files, > inodes on cramfs will be all fine. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Junjiro Okajima > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4
