[Cialug] overlay mounts

[Dave Hala]

You could avoid the mounting all together by rsync'ing over ssh.

:) Dave

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com> wrote:
> 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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