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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:49:19 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs
Message-ID:  <20050310004919.GA34206@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200503091838.06322.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <200503091838.06322.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:38:06PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The respected manual contain dire warnings, but the Google search suggests, 
> the situation is not *that* gloomy.
> 
> For example, according to http://kerneltrap.org/node/652 , nullfs was used on 
> Bento-cluster two years ago in 2003.

nullfs seems to work fine, unionfs is very fragile and easily
exploded.

> Is anybody working on this file-systems? Any plans, rumours?
> 
> What about the `union' option to regular mounts? Is that safe to use?

Yes.

Kris



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