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Article #6736Strange TFS Behaviour
From: mario
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 15:36
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 15:36
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I've been trying to use TFS (under 4.1.1), and it seems to behave very
strangely under some circumstances. The main problem is that the apparent
state of a filesystem can change by unmounting and then remounting it!
Here's an eg, in which I remove a directory (and hence all its contents),
which then magically reappear again!
# mkdir /bottom /bottom/foo /top
# touch /bottom/foo/file
# mount_tfs /top /bottom # now bottom has a layer above it..
# cd /bottom/foo
# ls
file
# rm file # delete ("whiteout") the file
# ls # ..apparently gone..
# lsw # ..but still in the lower layer
file
# cd ..
# rmdir foo # now do the same for the directory...
# mkdir foo # ...and immediately remake it
# cd foo
# ls # the new directory is opaque.
# cd / # now unmount and remount the files (eg at a reboot)
# umount_tfs /bottom
# mount_tfs /top /bottom
# cd /bottom/foo
# ls # and the directory is now translucent, and the file has reappeared!
file
This seems just plain wrong to me. I like the original behaviour: using
that I can have a directory which is opaque (which can be useful). But if
opaque directories become translucent again, then I'm just going to get
confused!!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: mario@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Strange TFS Behaviour Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1488@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 30 Jan 91 15:36:38 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 33 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 30, message 17 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu