nullfs in 4.10

Bjoern Koenig bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Jun 22 13:09:28 GMT 2004


Hello,

first of all:

THIS FILESYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED
(READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT,
DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET.

My experience:

I had much less problems with unionfs -b, even with FreeBSD 4.10, to mount
for example /usr/ports into a jail temporarily. But for everything else you
should never use it.

Bjoern



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