On 18:53 20 Feb 2002, Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Well, more what I was wondering is whether that diskspace ever gets
| reclaimed as it is unused while the remote directory is mounted over it,
| and whether there is any way of accessing that diskspace/ those files
| while the remote directory is mounted (which it seems the answer to the
| latter, at least, is no).
Of course not. That would be Very Bad. (Consider: the files reappear after
unmount - what would be in them if the OS freed their storage?)
Generally with a mountpoint you either:
- Store NOTHING underneath it, for the obvious reason.
that most of the time it will be inaccessible.
This effectively avoids your "wasted space" scenario.
- Store a skeleton (i.e. minimalist) tree underneath it
as David described, containing sufficient to get by in the
(usually rare) case that the main filesystem isn't mounted.
Cheers,
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