On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:48:15PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 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?)
This used to be, incidentally, a common way to hide programs from
users in Unix. The sys
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 00:48, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 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.
the is reminds
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
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:31:57 -0800 (PST)
David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, grasshopper, you've discovered one of the seventh wonders of the
> world -- the 'masking' effect when one filesystem is mounted on top of
> another. :-)
>
> You can get the same effect with any mount, l
On 19:04 21 Feb 2002, rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > [...] It's still
| > there, obviously, as you saw ... there's just no access path to it.
| although with this release of red hat (7.2), those processes that
| had open files "underneath" the new mount point still have access
| to those
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> Ah, grasshopper, you've discovered one of the seventh wonders of the
> world -- the 'masking' effect when one filesystem is mounted on top of
> another. :-)
>
> You can get the same effect with any mount, local or nfs. If you fill
> /usr/local
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Monte Milanuk wrote:
>Now for the question part. Now, I log out as the user, and log in as
>root, and mount the servers /home directory as /home on the client. So
>now when I log in as a user on either machine, I have a persistent view of
>my home
Ok. This is one that has had me wondering for a while now:
Lets say I have a server that exports /home via NFS. And I have clients
that mount /home via NFS from that server. When I go thru the initial
setup, and create a user, though, the '/home' that is used is not (yet)
the one on the server
