Hello, On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:07:20AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:26:11PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > > Is it possible to just unionmount / on another node and then chroot to > > it? > > Yes, that should work: > > settrans myroot unionfs / --mount overlay && chroot myroot
I can confirm that his works with my testing translator for ``overlay''. There is an issue, however: when I do ``chroot myroot'' it hangs, so I have to hit ^C, which brings me to the chrooted environment. I don't have any idea as to why it happens like this, but I hope it won't be too hard to solve this problem. > (BTW, this is an obvious use case for union-mounting with something > different than the underlying node -- why didn't I see this before? I'm > glad now that we decided to go with the --mount option to unionfs: it's > so much more powerful than a "pure" unionmount :-) ) I finally changed my opinion to like the ``--mount'' option, too :-) Initially, I considered that such implementation was a temporary measure, but now I can see that it was a wise decision to choose this route. Also, by stating this, we actually approach the answer to one of the fundamental questions: where unionmount should live. It is clear now that keeping unionmount in the same repository with unionfs should be okay. Regards, scolobb
