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Date:      Sat, 19 Jul 2003 02:07:04 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIONFS Stability
Message-ID:  <20030719090704.GA77381@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030718232702.Y2947@thor.65535.net>
References:  <20030718232702.Y2947@thor.65535.net>

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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:30:15PM -0700, Rus Foster wrote:
> Hi All,
> How stable is unionfs? Reading the man page for mount_unionfs its says
> that its not. Is that still true or is it better on 5.x? ATM I'm running
> 4.8

unionfs may work if you use it read-only and don't change files in the
lower layer, but your mileage may vary (i.e. expect problems).  There
might be some work on improving stability in the future, but it's
unlikely to be completely fixed soon.

Kris

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