New Server - To 5.x or Not To 5.x

[Danny Braniss]

> 
> I've been running FreeBSD 4.x for eons now, mainly because of the fact 
> that she's "known" in our environment ... UNIONFS isn't perfect, but all 
> of the obvious/major bugs have been worked out of her, etc ... but, she's 
> also a dead branch, so any outstanding bugs, nobody is interested in 
> fixing them, let alone having reported ...
> 
> I'm just in the process of putting together a new server, and based on 
> some stuff I've heard recently concerning work that has been done on 
> UNIONFS, I'm tempted to put 5.x onto this new server, to start bringing my 
> servers into the 'current age' ...
> 
> Is there anyone out there using 5-STABLE and UNIONFS that are happy with 
> it, or is it still very problematic?
> 
> Again, the key thing right now for me is UNIONFS, so I'm looking mainly 
> for feedback from ppl that *are* using it, not just reading the end of the 
> man page ...
> 
> Thanks ...

im using it, even with 6.0.

im using it for my diskless (about 90% of our freebsd), to mount /etc

	kldload unionfs
    	mount_md 4096 /conf/etc
    	chmod 755 /conf/etc
    	mount_unionfs /conf/etc /etc
    	ls -R /etc > /dev/null
    	touch /etc/.sentinel
    	md_created_etc=created

and all is fine.