Mirrordiring /proc?

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Fri Jun 4 11:32:12 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:30:52PM -0700, Frank Reichenbacher wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a second HD to mirrordir the primary as a failure
> backup. It's working great except I'm not sure what to do with /proc. I
> can mount the proc filesystem but then mirrordir screams bloody murder
> when I try to mirror /proc to my /mirror/proc. Can't read the symlinks,
> can't open the directories, etc. Why isn't it possible to mirrordir a
> /proc mount point? 

/proc is an in-memory file system.  It does not exist on disk at all.

        .../Ed

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