[Unionfs] Unionfs for special files

[Charles P. Wright]

Brendan,

Unionfs will only create the special file if the error returned by smbfs
is "EROFS" (read-only file system).

Charles

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 17:22 -0500, brendan powers wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to use unionfs to allow creating of special
> files(links,sockets,etc...) on filesystems that don't support them.
> For example, using unionfs to allow creation of sockets on a saba
> mounted file system. The samba file system would be read/write, and
> there would be another branck mounted from a tmpfs just for creation
> of special files. Am i right in asuming that these file creation
> requests would fail on the samba fs, so unionfs would create them on
> teh unionfs branch instead?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
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