General issues with Linux

On Linux, the multiversion file system (MVFS) has the following limitations:

  • A chroot operation to a directory in a view context is unsupported
  • The NFS root file system type is unsupported
  • View-extended naming of objects not in a VOB is limited to directories and symlinks. After a view-extended pathname traverses a mount point into a VOB, all view-private and VOB objects are accessible. For example:
    • /view/viewtag/etc/motd (a plain file) cannot be accessed and returns an EACCES error
    • /view/viewtag/tmp can be listed as a directory, but you cannot create files in it
    • /view/viewtag/vobs/sources/... works normally