[Cialug] overlay mounts

[Andrew Denner]

A quick dirty low hanging fruit solution until a better one is found would
be to set up a cron job to check if a folder or file is there, and if not
it means things have become unmounted and if so then remount things?

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me explain what I'm doing. I'd like to see if you have any suggestions.
>
> I have a working overlay mount.
>
> Directory A is Upper
> Directory B is Lower
> Directory C is Overlay of A+B (r/w but files get written to A)
>
> That all works as expected.
>
> What I want to do is move the files from A to B at a later point. I
> can do this but then the mount becomes undefined and goes to heck. I
> can correct this by unmounting and remounting it.
>
> Does anyone know of another union filesystem that would let me do that
> and not have to do unmount/remount?
>
> Here's the reason for all of this. Amazon Cloud Drive. I picked up the
> $5/year of unlimited storage. I have it mounted on my linux box via
> acd_cli. It's working well. The issue is that I cant write directly to
> it as its unstable, I need to use the upload utility in acd_cli. So
> Data goes to a local store(Directory A above) until I run the upload
> and move it to ACD(Directory B) above and Directory C is what everyone
> sees.
>
> I have tried unionfs fuse mount and overlayfs thats built into the
> kernel..both give me issues.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> -Jim
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