[Unionfs] union of nfs ro and tmpfs rw yielding EROFS

[hooanon05 at yahoo.co.jp]

"Brian J. Murrell":
> I am using unionfs 1.1.3 with 2.6.9 (RHEL4 2.6.9-22.0.2 base) to try to
> get a writable overlay to a read-only shared NFS root filesystem.  The
> problem I seem to be having is even though I have a RW branch specifed
> to the left of the RO branch, I'm still getting EROFS trying to create a
> file for example.

It seems the same problem which is posted a few days ago.
Check out the mail archive by the subject "Is this bug?" and you will
find a patch.


Junjiro Okajima