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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:48:51 +0200
From:      "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        "'Oldach, Helge'" <Helge.Oldach@atosorigin.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: nullfs in 4.10
Message-ID:  <20040622234827.7D47260@hoppel.local>
In-Reply-To: <D2CFC58E0F8CB443B54BE72201E8916E94CC24@dehhx005.hbg.de.int.atosorigin.com>

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> Bjoern Koenig wrote:
>
> > NFS on localhost instead of nullfs is a very 
> > good solution.

Helge Oldach wrote:

> Err, no, the overhead is *much* higher than plain nullfs
> or unionfs. Local NFS is essentially fiddling file system
> access through the networking subsystem.

Ok, I think my exclamation was too officious. I didn't want to say that
loopback NFS is the solution for all problems concerning nullfs. But it's a
very elegant solution for my purposes concerning jails and especially with
/usr/ports and some small other things; overhead isn't a serious problem in
my case. - Sorry for inconvenience.

Bjoern




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