the current status of nullfs, unionfs

[Kris Kennaway]

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