is read-write nullfs safe?

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Wed Jun 20 00:31:50 UTC 2007


Rong-en Fan wrote:
> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, and I am wondering
> if using nullfs w/ rw is safe in a production environment?
> My impression is that ro nullfs is ok, but not rw.
> Is this still the case?

nullfs is quite stable from my impression at least for my workload.  We
use it for some heavily loaded package building environment.  The old
unionfs implementation may have some problems.

Cheers,


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