On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0800 (PST),
wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
> > Meanawhile, mount union, which sounds like the solution to another
> > project around here (keeping some executables on obsolete machines, with
> > the big stuff on a server), claims not to be supported.  do i need a
> > diffetnet kernel?
> 
> Yes. It needs to be compiled in as an option.

Aren't most GENERIC kernels built with the option?  I think the
problem is that /usr resides in the root filesystem and it doesn't
support whiteouts (ala Mkfs-make filesystems).

Ken