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

[Bruce S. <bw...@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.
> 
> > The exact same problem exists in both UnionFS and aufs.
> 
> So, something to do with DL then.

Appears to be the case.

> > 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 can't find any commonalities between the files that are in etc-mods.

All the scripts/files in etc-mods/init.d/ are there.
So I'm thinking maybe they have to be there if there are symlinks to the
files for some reason internal to the workings of aufs.

But then again, all the files in sysconfig/nic/* are there too,
including the _sample_ files!  There are no links to those files, and I
don't think anything would even look at those SAMPLE files during boot!

And there are files in mods for postfix/* and ppp/* too!  This is a
fresh/copy-your-config-to-blank-floppy-boot!  I'm not running postfix or
ppp (or any other services with the default config).  WEIRD!!!

Maybe I need to join the aufs mailing list and start asking questions...

 - BS