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

[Dick M. <di...@fo...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>>> 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.

> The exact same problem exists in both UnionFS and aufs.

So, something to do with DL then.

> 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.

Something's doing it.  To keep that old mtime it would have to be copying and 
restoring them.  Sort of thing tar or cpio does.  They're not in initramfs and 
being copied back before pivot root.

> 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?

 > It just bugs me ...

It would me too.

Dick