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Re: union mounts not supported?
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Re: union mounts not supported?


  • Subject: Re: union mounts not supported?
  • From: "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:26:35 +0000

On 1 Nov 2010, at 09:57, Quinn The Eskimo! wrote:

> IIRC union mounts work fine at the kernel level, but things fall apart at higher levels.  There's been repeated consideration of fixing all of these high-level issues, but it's never bubbled to the top of the priority list.

In case the above wasn't clear enough, I'd strongly recommend against building any sort of product (especially any product that you ship to end users) based on union mounts.

And, primarily for the Apple folks reading along at home, the bug tracking this stuff is <rdar://problem/2577840>.

S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware


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