unionfs 5.4

[Denis Shaposhnikov]

>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

 Kris> But it works, and doesn't panic the system.  unionfs is
 Kris> well-documented to be broken, and this is unlikely to change in
 Kris> the near future.

That's a recent regression, unionfs works fine on

FreeBSD sagitta.internal.vlink.ru 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Dec  1 17:39:09 MSK 2004 dsh at rigel.internal.vlink.ru:/var/FreeBSD/obj/var/FreeBSD/src/sys/SAGITTA i386

And if unionfs panic the system on 5.4 too, I think it can't be STABLE
at all.

BTW, from man mount_nullfs:

BUGS
     THIS FILE SYSTEM 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.

So you can't suggest to use nullfs instead of unionfs, because "is
well-documented to be broken".

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