Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:47:35 +0100 From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nullfs on 5.1 Message-ID: <20040109094734.GA5565@deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <3FFE7644.2020402@freebsd.org> References: <20040108220703.GA19764@deneb.enyo.de> <3FFE7644.2020402@freebsd.org>
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Tim Robbins wrote: > One major potential deadlock has been fixed since the release of 5.1. If > you find a reproducible way of deadlocking nullfs on 5.2 or a -current > snapshot less than 6 months old, submit a bug report. Thanks, I'll try to build RELENG_5_2. > >Is nullfs essentially unsuported, or is it just broken? What's the > >status of unionfs (the manpage is rather discouraging). > > > > > > > Nullfs is unsupported, but works well except for a few outstanding bugs > (e.g. accessing some kinds of special files on the lower layer through > the upper layer causes a panic). So I should be safe if I copy /dev? Good to know.
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