Entries tagged with 'mount'

There is a very old bug in Solaris (now fixed in Nevada) in which the underlying permissions of a mount point affect the overlying mounted filesystem. The normal way to resolve this is to umount the filesystem, correct the permission and remount it.
This is sometime easier said than done, for example, what if [...]

Links of interest for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008:

Direct Mounting of Files - As of snv_91, you no longer need lofi to mount a filesystem image, like an ISO. You can now call mount(1M) as you would a normal filesystem.
DTrace IP Provider - Cool. The first step of implementing TCP/IP DTrace providers [...]