Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Friday 25 April 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > that seems like a nice approach.  Why do I need to touch the SENTINEL
> > file?
> >
> > C
>
> Chris,
>
> in the example, you touch the file ONCE to make it exist.  Then when you
> mount music, it will "mask" the file.  That file will only show up when
> your smb mount for music is not mounted.  Try it.
>
> When you make a file in a dir /tmp/test then mount something in
> /tmp/test the contents of /tmp/test will only show the mounted files.
> When you unmount /tmp/test the original file will still be there.
>
> I think this is a rather elegant approach independent of networking.  If
> networking is down, you will see the "touched" file.  If networking is
> up and smb/CIF is working, you will not see it.  The "touched" file will
> not be overwritten by your file moving/deletion/backups/restores.
>
> Does that help?

Yes!  Thank you very much!

>
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> Damon L. Chesser
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