1) Yes, I am using the vanilla unionfs code from Ubuntu in both cases... I have done nothing special.
2) The kernel panics... unfortunately I cannot get a picture of the screen for you as I have no camera available here... is the oops message saved somewhere so that I can get at it otherwise??? -- run-init crashes when root is unionfs on nfs https://launchpad.net/bugs/85145 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs