I may be missing the obvious, but.. Is there any reason the init script can't do mount --bind if the kernel is 2.4, and some other hack (rsync or whatever) if not? (via uname or something, maybe) Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> -------------------\ | He had a terrible memory. He remembered everything. | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/