sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common, and 
> very desirable.  You may mount /usr from a small read-only partition 
> (vnode file, etc) and then mount a different partition or NFS over it if 
> you detect the one you want.
> 
> I think this comes down to: if it hurts, stop doing it.  :)
> 
> Maybe sysinstall should warn you that you are double mounting, but I 
> don't want it to stop letting me do it.

Are we absolutely sure overlaying NFS + local UFS filesystems like
this is the cause of the filesystem corruption?

If Eric's doing it and it's working fine, I'm left wondering if
there's maybe sysinstall isn't handling something right.

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