Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:51:45 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stability of unionfs - general recommendation? Message-ID: <5392FCD1.3040806@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <5392DB73.1020403@my.hennepintech.edu> References: <20140606103523.Horde.M-arxGpaecCk8BW2FZ_pXQ7@d2ux.org> <5392DB73.1020403@my.hennepintech.edu>
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Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2014.06.06 03:35, Matthias Petermann wrote:
>> My internet research yielded some questionable results on the stability of
>> unionfs. I understood there was an "old" implementation and a "newer" one
>> introduced in FreeBSD 6.3[1].
> I asked about this on the doc mailing list (because of the the way the man page
> is worded) and was told the new unionfs implementation deserves the big scary
> warning in the man page about as much as the old one. There have also been some
> recent discussions on IRC with the same general feeling, so I wouldn't trust it.
>
General recommendation is to use nullfs and not unionfs for reasons you
all ready found. port sysutils/jail-primer explains it nicely and has
scripts you can use.
http://jail-primer.sourceforge.net/
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