unionfs limitations?

[EirikØverby]

On 07-05-05 02:22, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:

> yOn Sat, 7 May 2005, Eirik [ISO-8859-1] Øverby wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just started playing with mounting ports into jails using unionfs
>> (mount_unionfs -b /usr/ports_jail /usr/local/jails/jail-0/usr/ports), and
>> many things seem to work fine.
>> However, when trying to install either of mysql41-server or mysql41-client,
>> I see the following:
>> 
>> [root at mpi1] /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server# make install
>> ===>  Installing for mysql-server-4.1.11_1
>> ===>   mysql-server-4.1.11_1 depends on shared library: mysqlclient.14 -
>> found
>> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
>> ===>  Checking if databases/mysql41-server already installed
>> ln: POSIX: Operation not supported
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server.
>> 
>> Did I miss out on something, or is this not going to work? Do I need to
>> think in other ways?
>> I have stress-tested this setup pretty well over the last 24 hours, with as
>> many as 20 mountpoints using the same ports tree, with constant package
>> building in each of them. This was impossible last time I played with
>> unionfs, so it must have stabilized somewhat ;)
> 
> What version of FreeBSD?  Only issue I've hit so far is just trying SBCL
> the other day and getting an MMAP issue that I'm guessing is jail related,
> not unionfs ...

5.4 as of a couple of days ago..
Are you able to install mysql41-server from ports in your unionfs-mounted
ports tree? Building works, installing doesn't...

/Eirik

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