Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:07:00 +0100 From: Bill Squire <billsf@curacao.n2it.nl> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Anyone use nullfs or unionfs ? Message-ID: <20040323190700.GC4843@curacao.n2it.nl>
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Hi, Nullfs works fine on the high-end amd i386 machines, but is rather 'thrashy' and inefficient on amd64. Is this a hardware bug or is there a patch to make it work? I'm redoing the whole 'jail' concept on FreeBSD and have received funding for a project that will be 100% open source. I would like to use amd64's but if nullfs doesn't work right, I can't. It doesn't work right on top-of-the-line Intel machines either. As for unionfs, it would be very nice if it truely worked. It seems to not be able to deal with very large overlays. Do I need to hack or is someone doing that now. Duplicated efforts are a waste. These are facinating fs concepts and I'm surprised nobody(?) sees them as I do. We are in beta test now and code will be posted soon on my site. I own a percentage share of a provider and it seemed necessary to keep quite for a year to avoid being 'jumped' by the competition. Many of my papers and those of friends on <http://cuba.calyx.nl/>; have been used in successful commercial applications, some 'closed source'. :( Fortunately papers on cracking 'digital watermarks' and 'CSS' have been widely deployed in open source projects. That was offtopic -- just want to know about nullfs or unionfs on amd64. Bill
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