Re: [Devil-linux-develop] UnionFS question.

[Bruce S. <br...@ar...>]

> >>> CD, but the files are in the mods directory.  Any clue why?
> >> Are you sure they weren't put there when you loaded the mods dir?
> > 
> > I'm sure I didn't load those files.
> 
> I knew that would be the case, but one has to ask ;-)

The exact same problem exists in both UnionFS and aufs.

The problem occurs after the linuxrc and pre_init scripts, (I stuck a
"ls /shm/etc-mods" at the very end of pre_init, and the files weren't
there at that time), so something past /sbin/init causes those files to
appear in the mods.

I grep'ed all the init scripts, and I can't find where most of those
files are referenced at all.  One guess is some binary program is
opening those files RW, but not modifying them.  Any other ideas?

One other idea I ruled out is I thought maybe the date on the files
(1/1/1980) was too close to the epoch or too far in the past, confusing
the union/aufs.  So I temporally modified the build script that does the
touch and changed the date from 1/1/1980 to 1/1/1990, but that didn't
help either.   :-(

BTW, there is only a few files with this problem, and it doesn't hurt
anything, so I didn't hold up the release of 1.3.5 for this.  Even if it
never gets fixed, it's no big deal.  It just bugs me ...

 - BS